Example sentences of "long before [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long before we are presented with a fait accompli for a fonetic fosforus and the continental decimal comma ? |
| 2 | Ferrets must become used to wearing a muzzle long before they are fitted with one for a day 's ferreting . |
| 3 | In South Africa the social and racial tone of stations was institutionalized through apartheid , although systems of racial segregation had , of course , existed long before they were systematized by the Nationalists . |
| 4 | However , double standards were used ind attacks on the ‘ alien menace ’ in the fascist press used many anti-semitic stereotypes long before it was accepted as an official weapon ; for instance in Blackshirt in October 1933 those Jews who attacked fascism were likened to a cancer in the body politic . |
| 5 | We do , however , know that tea was valued and enjoyed in China and Japan for many centuries , long before it was introduced to India , Ceylon and Africa . |
| 6 | Well erm I hope that erm you , wo n't be too long before you 're reunited with your husband . |
| 7 | But you should begin a history essay long before you are faced with actually writing it . |
| 8 | Whatever you choose , it wo n't be long before you are hooked on Hong Kong . |
| 9 | Back in Moose Jaw , busy with newspaper and radio work , it was not long before I was engaged in preparing and delivering a series of illustrated talks on musical appreciation on Wednesday evenings to audiences of 900 or more in the public auditorium of the Technical School . |
| 10 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 12 | It was not long before I was ensconced in the dining-room with a pastis and looking forward to dinner . |
| 13 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 14 | Nizan 's life chances were clearly and inalterably inscribed in his family situation long before he was born in Tours in February 1905 . |
| 15 | But it was not long before he was identified as the former Neath and Swansea star who switched codes in 1987 . |
| 16 | As Professor Verlinden has shown , the negro slave was much in evidence at the end of the Middle Ages in Portugal and Spain long before he was exported to the Americas . |
| 17 | It was in 1956 that Leigh-born Dorothy first joined the typing pool at the UKAEA and it was n't long before she was promoted as secretary to Jim Stewart , then Head of the Authority . |