Example sentences of "before we can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not only does this provide us with the content to be taught , but it also lays the foundation on which final assessment can be based ; however , before we can devise our objectives , two further collections of information are needed . |
| 2 | We 're going to get jobs , of course , but we may have to keep you waiting for ages before we can settle your account . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If we do , they 'll just kill her before we can reach her . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope John does n't hear about the bombing , or our Eileen or Joe before we can tell them we 're all safe , ’ Anne said . |
| 5 | We 've got ta order the stuff before we can do it . |
| 6 | Council leader , Coun John Williams ( Lab ) , when told of the plans by The Northern Echo said : ‘ I will need to find out much more about this before we can decide we can support it or not . ’ |
| 7 | First we have to work out what we think justice is , therefore , before we can decide what justice demands . |
| 8 | We have to become acquainted with the manifestations of fear before we can break its grip . |
| 9 | The persuasiveness of this judgment is widely attested ; but before we can gauge its force , we must consider the grounds for standing by this form of individualism . |
| 10 | So what are we supposed to do before we can turn our hosepipes back on ? |
| 11 | Before we can describe their views in detail , we need to take a closer look at the role of money in the economy . |
| 12 | It is only a matter of time before we can decode them fully . |
| 13 | Monsterland are some kind of weird Beatles from hell , Hüsker Dü without the ennui factor , badly-produced feedback guitar shouters from Nowheresville who start off like Mudhoney , turn into late-era Byrds and then go haring off on their revving guitars before we can have them arrested . |
| 14 | At the moment the sail is only attached down its needed edge but before we can use it , we 've got to control it properly and that means to tuck it in the boot the jaws clip on here , the down-haul clips on to the sail and is threaded through the jaws before we make it up on the cleat the position of the boom and hence the sail relative to the wind is controlled by this rope , the mainsheet . |
| 15 | Such practice needs investigation before we can accept it , en bloc , as evidence for objectivity and logical thought . |
| 16 | We do not have to encode what we want to say from something else before we can say it , or decode it before we can understand it . |
| 17 | In its present form it would be of some value to the company historian but in public institutions , its status as a record , and therefore its management needs to be decided before we can determine its retention . |
| 18 | The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven . |
| 19 | We do not have to encode what we want to say from something else before we can say it , or decode it before we can understand it . |
| 20 | That is why it is so important for us to be exactly clear what we mean by support teaching , and which ‘ model ’ of support teaching is under investigation , before we can select our criteria for evaluation appropriately ( see Table 8.3 ) . |