Example sentences of "is before " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is before you start taking into consideration commercial endorsements and appearance money which , at a conservative guess must add at least another $30–40m . |
| 2 | The signs may wax and wane , and the longer it is before a diagnosis is made , the more likely the dog is to end up with long-term arthritis , another disease where preventive measures are very easy and effective . |
| 3 | That is before the fête begins . |
| 4 | ‘ The only way to change Ray MacSharry 's mind , so far as I can see , is before he makes it up . |
| 5 | So I decided : if anyone does come , I want to see who it is before I show myself . |
| 6 | The time to take avoiding action is before the situation even arises ! |
| 7 | This is before you move on to environmental impact , the feeling of the community , and what the planners think : considerations whose complexity rises exponentially with the size and prominence of a site , and the number of bodies who have interests in the exercise . |
| 8 | This is when the new annual church programme gets under way after the summer holidays , and is before the bad winter weather sets in ( hopefully ! ) . |
| 9 | We call this first period of recording the baseline which tells us how bad the problem is before intervention starts . |
| 10 | After all , if your luff is flapping you need to know where it is before you can put it right . |
| 11 | The period of time a bill is before Parliament determines how long the window of opportunity to legislate on criminal justice matters remains open . |
| 12 | Erm I du n no this is somebody else 's paper so This is before I had a I worked it out as I I th I thought it 'd work out a three- four-five triangle . |
| 13 | Thus , according to Russell , since the possibility of a recurrence of the same " complexes of compresence " can not be excluded ( there is no equivalent of Leibniz 's principle of sufficient reason to ensure their numerical uniqueness ) we must accept that propositions about order in time , such as " If A precedes B , B does not precede A " , " If A is before B and B is before C , then A is before C " , etc. are merely empirical propositions and not inviolable a priori truths . |
| 14 | Thus , according to Russell , since the possibility of a recurrence of the same " complexes of compresence " can not be excluded ( there is no equivalent of Leibniz 's principle of sufficient reason to ensure their numerical uniqueness ) we must accept that propositions about order in time , such as " If A precedes B , B does not precede A " , " If A is before B and B is before C , then A is before C " , etc. are merely empirical propositions and not inviolable a priori truths . |
| 15 | Thus , according to Russell , since the possibility of a recurrence of the same " complexes of compresence " can not be excluded ( there is no equivalent of Leibniz 's principle of sufficient reason to ensure their numerical uniqueness ) we must accept that propositions about order in time , such as " If A precedes B , B does not precede A " , " If A is before B and B is before C , then A is before C " , etc. are merely empirical propositions and not inviolable a priori truths . |
| 16 | The only time parents really control their children is before they are born . |
| 17 | The time that interests me is before he was posted to the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo , before he became a flier . |
| 18 | Identifying the word as trespass sooner , that is before the /p/ is heard , would be inefficient because mistakes could be made ( for example , choosing trespass when you have only heard tres could be wrong — the word could be trestle or tress . ) |
| 19 | that I 'm w now , so what I suggest we do , is before we say we must make your premenstrual tension better with various manip various bits and bobs , and there are quite a few things we can do to help . |
| 20 | You see , and so we went to oh Inverness , Aberdeen and across to the Isle of Skye , and down the Skye and back across the water to Mallaig you see and er then we stayed one time at Fort William and because I love Scotland , so did he and erm and , and then and all r and then , and another thing , erm , this is before I married erm I went down , oh no , both of us , that 's right , we went down to stay at erm not , not Portsmouth er Southsea er there , there 's a place near there , next door |
| 21 | This is before you 've got the |
| 22 | this is before you 've got the piano . |
| 23 | Well er as I say I think , er if if if the County Council are are insisting that any new settlement erm should be self contained , I think one would need to see what that definition is before we can be clear as to whether or not it has it has strategic implications . |
| 24 | It does n't mean to say they do n't like participating , but they 'd like to you know see what the group view is before they put in their own views so they 're analyzing , thinking . |
| 25 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |
| 26 | Now eighteen months ago we had three hundred and , it was April , the report in April nineteen ninety two there were three hundred and sixty five I think it was places that were vacant in our homes and this is before we started the refurbishment . |
| 27 | This is before anybody gets any ideas at all . |
| 28 | Erm is before you to confirm on er Council and I 'd like to start by saying very briefly that there is as you know a government legal distinction between the er the operational side of waste disposal and the regulation side , and properly er issues on recycling have been referred er and decisions on that should be referred to the policy committee but er we work very closely with officer 's before you hear us er request it . |
| 29 | The amendment to add the word with sadness to this resolution number two on page sixteen is before you those in support of the amendment that we add the words with sadness to the resolution please show . |
| 30 | But I do n't know how long it is before I get my results back . |