Example sentences of "before they were [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 2 | I have never actually used these for help or advice myself , as I was aware of my infection before they were formed and had by then come to terms with it . |
| 3 | Tied up and robbed , before they were shot and thrown over a cliff . |
| 4 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 5 | This is a far cry from the days when increases in national income were committed by the conference before they were generated and the economy 's commanding heights were deemed to be heavy , smokestack industries . |
| 6 | People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward : they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted . |
| 7 | Young children have a very real need to place themselves in time and in a wider social context , and at a very basic level they need to explore the past before they were born and to begin to share the collective human memory . |
| 8 | Around his body were tied strips of greying cloth , and Tallis recognized the ragged shrouds of the decaying dead , before they were dismembered and burned . |
| 9 | Now it was up to him to get the youngsters out , before they were trapped and incinerated . |