Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 2 | European Community telecommunications ministers yesterday agreed the legislation intended to ensure that voice telephone services are provided in an open and efficient way across the Community , Reuter reports from Brussels : the legislation , which must be reviewed by the European Parliament before it becomes final , would improve access of users to public telephone networks and impose rules or objectives in areas such as prices , contracts and billing ; it would establish the principle that prices are based on cost , rather than cross-subsidy — in many countries , long distance calls subsidise local calls ; France won agreement on changes that would enable tariffs to be adjusted to ensure ‘ cohesion ’ within a state — in order to cover things like service to remote areas ; the ministers are also due this week to debate the controversial plans to liberalise the telecommunications market by 1998 . |
| 3 | I 'm out of that car before it stops moving , and Des is behind me without even turning it off . |
| 4 | As a result most of our large towns had their select residences on the western side , in positions where they received the benefit of the prevailing wind before it passed over the town or city ; the poorer population residing on the eastern side . |
| 5 | An algorithm which performs this trick before it starts searching is said to be goal directed , or a backwards searcher . |
| 6 | It was another hour before it worked . |
| 7 | So if you fancy a bit of innocent perv-pop with skeletons in the closet , catch this butterfly before it mutates into a monster . |
| 8 | Howard might have a seven-year itch over that wonderful side he built , and maybe the board should find some cash before it becomes a terminal rash . |
| 9 | His company Citymystic spent £800,000 on the popular venue before it crashed in 1989 . |
| 10 | Indeed , initially favoured by the government to soak up excess cereal production , it was one which linked agricultural , manufacturing and commercial capitalism before it reached its proletarian consumers . |
| 11 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 12 | We 've got to destroy this stuff before it destroys us ! ’ |
| 13 | He was glad to see the old area before it crashed to the ground ; there was not much left as it was . |
| 14 | Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts . |
| 15 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 16 | The key assumption of his model is that the information is received by one trader at a time , and each recipient trades on the basis of this information before it becomes known to anyone else . |
| 17 | I have to bless this tower before it falls down or the masons perish of liver-rot . ’ |
| 18 | Racing : Braiswick brings era to a close : Richard Edmondson on the last victory for a racing dynasty before it becomes absorbed by the Maktoum empire |
| 19 | Players can always fake injuries to be replaced so why not remove this sham before it gets out of control and causes real problems for the game 's administrators ? |
| 20 | The company wants the council to brighten up this walkway before it begins work on the shops . |
| 21 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 22 | 3 Turning into the attack , the defender pre-empts the move and back-palms the oncoming punch before it has time to gain power . |
| 23 | This time she was able to trap the playful retort before it made it from her mind to her mouth , managing to content herself with an indifferent lift of the shoulders . |
| 24 | But one must recognize that whatever system one puts in has only got a limited life before it becomes irrelevant , and if the payment is for achievement it must do just that . |
| 25 | Pay special attention to removing any surplus food before it decays ( hence the suggestion that you keep with floating , rather than sinking , pellets ) . |
| 26 | I think that that will ensure two things : first , greater equality of action across the Community ; and , secondly , to a greater degree than ever before that every nation that signs up to a directive considers in detail the implications and costs of that directive before it becomes law . |
| 27 | ‘ Kalliste was the name given to this little lady before it became either Thera or Santorini , and a more singularly inapt name I can not imagine . |
| 28 | Methodism seemed to encircle the little town before it entered it . |
| 29 | Tiny three-dimensional holograms formed and faded in the air above the set , each figure giving its brief report before it vanished . |
| 30 | If the marble is not moving fast enough it will run out of kinetic energy before it reaches the top , come to a momentary halt , and then roll back down again the way it came . |