Example sentences of "before be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages .
2 I went to Leeds 's last game in the 1st Division before being relegated in 1978 ( ? ) .
3 They left Hobart with a small party on a government schooner bound for port Davey , but got no further than Recherche Bay before being prevented by stormy weather for a fortnight .
4 All weapons are cleaned and examined before being locked back into the armoury , then personal kit can be dealt with .
5 Most of the inhabitants of the block were walking their last circuits before being locked in , and there was an absence of noise which merged with the deepening gloom .
6 He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany .
7 ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start .
8 She had been as long as 33–1 in the offices in the morning , opened 16–1 on course , before being sent off at 8–1 , and ironically it had been an eye-catching workout with the Luca Cumani-trained Red Slippers last week that convinced Bell that he had a worthy contender .
9 He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield .
10 Remember that the values read from the games port can be mathematically manipulated before being sent to the controller circuit .
11 Northern Ireland minister Michael Mates was also a regular before being sent to Ulster .
12 They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering .
13 He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists .
14 After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US .
15 If the material is not topical and is delayed for some time before being sent out the date should be changed .
16 Half-plate pictures , if they are well cropped before being sent out , are equally acceptable .
17 Ignoring the views of the Prime Minister is hardly in line with the basic training every local hack receives before being sent into combat .
18 Later in the war he commanded two more divisions , before being sent to Berlin early in 1919 as the head of the British military mission .
19 The brands were something all Ixmaritians received before being sent out into the world , but only Por Tanssie conducted the procedure without anaesthetic and proper medical care .
20 While books abound about American pilots and their P-51 Mustangs and B-17 Flying Fortresses , very few books are written about the training that these pilots had to go through before being sent out to fight .
21 These would have a life of up to 5 years , before being redesigned .
22 Martin was supported by tailenders Hughes , who made 15 in 55 minutes , and Mike Whitney , who equalled his best Test score of 13 before being run out to end the Australian innings .
23 Devon won by 73 runs , and Roebuck contributed a mere 6 towards that margin of victory before being run out .
24 Richardson scored 53 and shared a second wicket partnership of 141 with man-of-the-match Lara , who hit 14 boundaries and made his runs from 132 deliveries before being run out .
25 The giving of these notices at the proper times is important because they enable your council to inspect your work , to ensure that it is important because they enable your council to inspect your work , to ensure that it is satisfactory before being covered up .
26 The Scrap is a temporary store for deleted text , eg before being moved .
27 Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts .
28 The three pairs in my tank will all have paired and spawned together before being moved into the 36″ tank .
29 This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock .
30 The caravan was stolen from a service station at Barton , near Darlington before being moved to the farm at Hetton-le-Hole .
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