Example sentences of "before [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it 's disgusting and something needs ot be done before someone is killed . |
| 2 | It 's only a matter of time before someone is killed or badly injured . ’ |
| 3 | Senior registrar appointment committees assume that accreditation is necessary before someone is appointed to a consultant post and that accreditation will be granted only after four years of higher training ( eight years for a doctor training half time under the PM(79)3 scheme ) . |
| 4 | Homer , writing c 900–800BC , makes frequent reference to " spreading a rug on a stool " before someone is invited to sit down . |
| 5 | In other words , they actually arrange a medical assessment before someone is admitted and they then try to continue the kind of care that that has initiated . |
| 6 | There is no medical evidence to support the idea that a bitch needs to have a litter before she is spayed . |
| 7 | It must be done before she is restored . |
| 8 | We must bring peace before everything is lost . ’ |
| 9 | One requires a background of considerable behavioural complexity before one is justified in attributing to any creature beliefs , intentions and so on . |
| 10 | Lakeside resident Denton Bell said : ‘ Will we have to wait for somebody to die or for a building to burn down before something is done ? ’ |
| 11 | Chairman , er I do n't want to prolong the debate because as I 've mentioned before there is indicated support from a number of people er but I 'm grateful er to the Liberals in the fact that they feel that they are in a position to support this amendment . |
| 12 | They begin even before he is born . |
| 13 | Do thousands more have to be massacred before he is toppled ? |
| 14 | Here he will have to serve a form of apprenticeship before he is accepted or even noticed . |
| 15 | Unless the Queen stands down , he could be 70 before he is crowned king . |
| 16 | And Booth did enough to suggest it will only be a matter of time before he is crowned national champion . |
| 17 | The contractor responds to this and obtains the ‘ Conditions of Tender ’ , a written specification of the form in which the tender must be submitted and any special undertakings required from the contractor before he is regarded as qualified to tender . |
| 18 | The tenant may well benefit from this arrangement since he will have in his hands a lump sum before he is called upon to make any payment to his own landlord . |
| 19 | A child will not have been in school many days before he is made aware of individual differences among his classmates . |
| 20 | Before he is moved he will be blood-tested for brucellosis and leucosis and he will be re-tested on arrival at Vimer . |
| 21 | Clare Evans , 18 , of Barry , South Wales , told the jury that Mr Browning took a splinter out of her hand with a butterfly knife on 16 June last year , two days before he is alleged to have killed Mrs Wilks . |
| 22 | He has always been very bad about it , which is why he injured himself at Steve Hadley 's yard , and even now John has to dope him before he is clipped . |
| 23 | It would be in keeping with Mr Premium to lament that a young man must now be at the years of discretion before he is allowed to ruin himself . |
| 24 | No wonder Denmark signalled its dissatisfaction with Maastricht and all it stands for if a batsman needs 10,000 words of multi-lingual explanation before he is allowed to take guard . |
| 25 | The buyer is allowed a ‘ reasonable length of time ’ before he is taken to have accepted the goods . |
| 26 | Bell says that a contract of employment is not a contract uberrimae fidei so as to require disclosure by the employee of his own misconduct , either before he is taken into employment or during the course of his employment . |
| 27 | Experts warned last night that it could be up to a year before he is returned to Jersey . |
| 28 | The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero . |
| 29 | Rye must be soaked in hot water to destroy an anti-growth hormone in the seed coat before it is given to livestock , but triticale kernels can be fed directly to livestock with no harmful side-effects . |
| 30 | When the selected material is brought to the sacrificial enclosure in a ceremonial procession , a consecrated ‘ pot ’ or ‘ puma-kumbha ’ is installed and the stone or wood is subjected to set rituals before it is given to the sculptor . |