Example sentences of "[to-vb] before [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
| 2 | Then the pulp was crushed to extract the juice , and the liquid was left for up to three months to ferment before being transferred to casks for maturing . |
| 3 | The murmur might become a clamour , were it not that Mr Kinnock is already preparing to leap before being pushed . |
| 4 | Celebrating the start of our once in a lifetime holiday in style by sipping rum punches on the open deck we watched the sun beginning to set before being escorted to our cabin . |
| 5 | Each aircraft will be acting as an extra set of eyes for the other in an attempt to see before being seen . |
| 6 | When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945 I had just completed my Higher School Certificate in the traditional three subjects , with a year to spare before being called up for National Service . |
| 7 | One might hazard a guess that Part I was concerned with devising a conformation in which the fission explosion would raise the thermonuclear material to the required temperature and pressure and which would contain the material at a sufficient density for a time long enough for a substantial amount to react before being dispersed . |
| 8 | AF boss Dr Bruno Broughton said : ‘ There is nothing wrong with the bulk of the IFM proposals but forcing people to qualify before being allowed to go fishing is over the top . ’ |
| 9 | The cards are now flicked through and , sure enough , each of the cards has turned over , and they are given to the children to hold before being collected . |
| 10 | They may have been left outside to dry before being fired . |
| 11 | Pipe on to paper , if you need to allow the design to dry before being transferred to the cake , or directly on to the cake if this is applicable , for instance if the run-out is to lie flat . |
| 12 | The several hundred Ma delay in the basin impacts after the main phase of accretion can also be explained , because it can be shown that the more massive a body the longer it is likely to survive before being collected by the Moon ( or by the Earth ) . |
| 13 | One way of overcoming this is by spinning a large-area sample of the solid in the laser beam , so that any individual spot is irradiated for a short time only , and is able to cool before being brought back into the beam . |
| 14 | A split-second after the stoppage , the 26-year-old Magee crashed to the canvas taking an embarrassed Thomas with him and needed a couple of minutes to recover before being hauled to his feet . |
| 15 | However , a priest stood on the floor of the parliament and refused to yield before being allowed to speak . |
| 16 | This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again . |