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

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1 ( This emphasises the point that before accepting any cheque proof of identity should be sought . )
2 Such sanctions could be implemented either by insisting that before receiving funds form the EC for a particular project the member country must ensure that the project in question complies with environmental legislation , or if a member country does not comply with environmental legislation across the board , the EC could withhold funding .
3 A patient entering a consulting room is always conscious that before entering , and upon leaving , there is a knowing tête à tête between consultant and assistant .
4 Moreover , in 1973 one deputy minister of foreign trade described the deficiencies in Soviet marketing as follows : ‘ While we were only beginning to understand that before entering the marketplace we had to study it , determining which machinery could or could not be supplied where , as well as how to organise the work involved , capitalist firms had already created a whole science to deal with the question , coordinating production , advertising and commercial activity into a single discipline ’ ( N. Smeliakov , Novy mir , 12 ( Dec. ) 1973 , 216–17 ) .
5 ( 2 ) The Compensation Fund covenant shall include a covenant by the covenantor that before transferring any share or transferring a beneficial interest in any share or holding any share as nominee he or it will ensure that the intended transferee or beneficial owner submits a Compensation Fund covenant to the Council .
6 I further covenant with the Council that before transferring any share in the Company or transferring a beneficial interest in any such share or holding any such share as nominee I will ensure that the intended transferee or beneficial owner submits to the Council a Compensation Fund covenant as required by Rule 14 of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 ( or any modification or re-enactment of that provision for the time being in force ) .
7 It further covenants with the Council that before transferring any share in the Company or transferring a beneficial interest in any such share or holding any such share as nominee it will ensure that the intended transferee or beneficial owner submits to the Council a Compensation Fund covenant as required by Rule 14 of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 ( or any modification or re-enactment of that provision for the time being in force ) .
8 In a letter to Sejm Speaker Wieslaw Chrzanowski , the former President , Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski , said that before voting the Sejm should hear explanations from himself and his colleagues responsible for introducing martial law .
9 Little heed seems to have been paid to the argument that before stepping into an airliner everyone knows a slight risk is involved .
10 To continue the analogy however , one danger of a cuckoo in a nest is that before flying it may permanently displace other promising chicks which could be particularly concerned with processes ( chapter 5 ) and man ( 6 ) and such themes are not readily accommodated in an earth science , geoscience or environmental science structure .
11 and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public
12 Is it true that before singing in Suede , Brett played the part of Jill in Eastenders ?
13 I was advised that before studying psionic medicine it would be appropriate to learn homoeopathy and this I duly did , leaving my post in the genetics department for one in the homoeopathic hospital .
14 I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made .
15 Highbury Corner Stipendiary Magistrate ex p. di Matteo established that before making an order depriving an offender of his rights in property under Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 , s.43 , the court must have some evidence of the value of the property concerned ( also in that case a car ) so that it can fulfil the obligation imposed by section 43(1A) to have regard to the value of the property concerned .
16 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
17 I realise that before making any commitment you 'll want to take advice , but perhaps you could let me have your initial response ? ’
18 For instance , sugar came in huge blocks , so that before weighing it out , sufficient must be chipped off with a knife ; and black treacle must be ladled out spoonful by spoonful into the customer 's jar .
19 He has protested his innocence , saying that before fleeing East Germany last weekend he dissolved the GDR 's hard-currency accounts in Switzerland and transferred the sum of Dm60 million ( £22 million ) to East Germany 's state bank .
20 He has protested his innocence , saying that before fleeing East Germany last weekend he dissolved the GDR 's hard-currency accounts in Switzerland and transferred the sum of Dm60 million ( £22 million ) to East Germany 's state bank .
21 When someone is asked a question , it is likely that before answering he will direct his gaze away from the questioner 's eyes ( Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) particularly if the question requires some thought .
22 That 's to say someone is leaving and we are going to take that post out and put it into the food section , and on b , I would say to Matthew that before committing us to a budget of two and a half thousand against a background of ten percent cuts , I would suggest that the health educational help-line and their day-long courses for E H Os might be made good use of in the forth-coming year .
23 It was decided that before going up to Oxford , which in fact he never did , he should spend time with a German family in Mecklenburg and three months studying at the university in Jena , where he attended lectures on philosophy and political economy and made many close friends among German Jews .
24 I now decided that before going back to Oxford I would spend a month in the Danakil country .
25 Enormously impressed by this friendly , helpful girl , who did n't seem in the least like most receptionists she encountered , Ellie slid back the registration card , accepted her plastic key , gave one of her funny little smiles , and decided that before going up to her room she 'd better try and find Donal .
26 It is possible that before going into liquidation the buyer had paid part of the price to the seller .
27 The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial .
28 ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial .
29 Mr Beckett makes the point that before embarking on such a venture the land would need to be fully assessed to determine the stocking rate .
30 And later she might have sworn , even though the lighting was bad and he was already some distance away , that before turning around and stalking off into the night , the stranger had snarled like a beast .
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