Example sentences of "[noun pl] before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to be thoroughly discussed with all interested parties before being submitted for publication , and the speed of publication was about average for this sort of paper . |
| 2 | The draft proposals were to be discussed with the trade unions and opposition parties before being submitted to the People 's Assembly . |
| 3 | The surviving stowaway said his friends on board the MacRuby were beaten by six crewmen before being hurled into the Atlantic off Portugal . |
| 4 | He and his friends would deliberately allow the quicksand to take them up to their knees before being extricated by the other members of the gang . |
| 5 | Forest had chances to win , a traditionally exciting game , but Kingsley Black missed a series of opportunities before being substituted in the second half . |
| 6 | THE man who took office as President of Panama early yesterday morning was popularly elected last spring but had to wait more than six months before being thrust into power by the United States . |
| 7 | But when the justice minister who had agreed to her release himself fell from favour , she was reimprisoned and had to serve a further ten months before being rereleased . |
| 8 | Jorge Quintana Silva and another student , Carlos Ortega , were arrested on 4 January 1990 and detained for 10 months before being brought to trial . |
| 9 | Secondly , giving a second full course of vaccine without determining whether the person being vaccinated is an infectious carrier would mean that the person could potentially transmit infection for at least six months before being identified . |
| 10 | She lay there awash for almost eight months before being salvaged by the Leith Towage & Salvage Co . |
| 11 | The analyst identifies the entities and relationships before being immersed in the detail , in particular the work of identifying the attributes which define the properties of entities . |
| 12 | If we allow 200 msecs per spoken word , on average , then the human listener can require up to 7 words before being sure of an interpretation . |
| 13 | They were allowed twenty two sparse words before being taken to a Nazi Concentration camp . |
| 14 | The Society is also unhappy that it was extensively tested on animals before being launched : ‘ There are many reasons for becoming a vegetarian , ’ explains Ms Gellatley . |
| 15 | At the Battle of Grim Moor the Count Valmir von Raukov won a temporary respite , putting to rout many of Azhag 's Goblins before being forced to withdraw . |
| 16 | There the lucky ones among us were allowed half-way up the steps before being halted and held in position for twenty minutes while , I assume , the stewardess disentangled herself from more pressing engagements and tidied herself in readiness . |
| 17 | The man was treated by paramedics before being taken to Arrowe Park Hospital . |
| 18 | Mr Lennon was treated at the scene by a team of paramedics before being taken by ambulance to Wigan Royal Infirmary . |
| 19 | Her husband , Patrick , also 68 , was treated at the scene by paramedics before being rushed to hospital . |
| 20 | With only 11 runs needed from two overs , Byas rammed Snell through the covers before being caught at long on next ball . |
| 21 | Then the prime minister 's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog . |
| 22 | Labour yesterday demanded publication of the report , which warns that British industry is in a lamentable state and will take decades before being fit enough to compete internationally . |
| 23 | Many were kicked and beaten by eight or more stewards before being flung into the street : ‘ In nearly every case they were bleeding from the head and face and their clothing was badly torn … . ’ |
| 24 | At 36 tons each it was an interesting engineering project to slide the old boilers across the floor of the boilerhouse on special rollers before being craned onto a low loader . |
| 25 | Work on the project started last year when Bennington developed prototypes which were put through months of stringent trials before being approved for flight use . |
| 26 | Both the driver and the passenger were armed and fired several rounds before being shot dead by security men . |
| 27 | His great technical knowledge and ability were combined with thoroughness ; all important engineering drawings were personally approved by him and all new features were tested on prototypes before being put into quantity production . |
| 28 | He committed a string of further offences before being arrested again . |
| 29 | He was eventually put ashore on the island of Emira where he had to live for six days on coconuts before being rescued and brought to Sydney , Australia . |
| 30 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |