Example sentences of "before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two points made before are thereby worth reiterating : first , that the meaning of perversion is crucially context dependent ; second that one objective of this book is to restore to the concept dimensions which were obscured within the sexological/psychoanalytic traditions , though remaining inscribed within them , especially in Freud 's texts . |
| 2 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
| 3 | Greig ( v Pak , Headingley , 1974 ) , A.J. Lamb ( v NZ , Lord 's , 1983 ) , A Shrewsbury ( v Aust , Sydney , 1887–88 ) and F.E. Woolley ( v Aust , Sydney , 1911–12 ) ; those who had taken four in an innings before are : L.C. Braund ( v Aust , Sheffield , 1902 and v Aust , Sydney , 1907–08 ) , A.P.F . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Matthew 's commitment to Jesus is like that ; the days , the weeks , the months which had gone before are not relevant to the story . |
| 6 | Other members of the club not mentioned before are John Cannovan , Dugald Ferguson , Stewart Fernie and Pat Meechan . |
| 7 | More children than before are now acquiring a formal education beyond the minimum school-leaving age . |
| 8 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 9 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 10 | Tom Wolfe 's book The Painted Word is a witty example of the genre ; it originally appeared in Harper 's Magazine , before being made into a book in 1975 . |
| 11 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 12 | Baird then returned to the mainland after two years to work as sous chef under Brian Baker at Hambleton Hall , Leicestershire , before being offered the head chef 's job at Longueville himself 12 months later . |
| 13 | Harvest onions and lay them out in a dry , sunny spot where then can finish ripening before being stored |
| 14 | They will remain there for up to ten weeks , before being brought into a warm greenhouse so we can force them into flower . |
| 15 | The legs are then lowered to within 15cm ( 6in ) of the bench before being raised again . |
| 16 | Longer-term planning forced BR to embark upon life-extension programmes for several locomotive types expected to be needed until well into the 1990s , although they were halted in 1989 before being completed . |
| 17 | His Firebird flew and still flies in all her glory before being trapped pitifully in the arms of the Tsarevich . |
| 18 | These are also strongly accented as the arms straighten into 2nd position before being bent , with hands sometimes clasped behind the head , sometimes placed akimbo on the waist or sometimes with one on the waist and the other behind the large bow at the back of the head-dress . |
| 19 | From Gaping Gill a path leads through a grassy dry valley which soon narrows at the boulderchoked entrance to Trow Gill , a small but imposing limestone gorge — possibly caused by a collapsed cave — through which Clapham Beck once tumbled before being swallowed up by Gaping Gill . |
| 20 | These pine cabinet doors were sanded to a smooth finish before being given one coat of Antique Pine wood dye . |
| 21 | They seek to restrict town-based owners to one dog per household and legislate for all puppies to be neutered before being sold . |
| 22 | System state is recorded three times a second , the data being preprocessed on the Archimedes before being passed to the college VAX cluster for statistical analysis . |
| 23 | The former ferry steward , who rose through the National Union of Seaman before being elected MP for Hull , wears every thought and feeling on his sleeve . |
| 24 | He predicted that the industry — which the Government has pledged will be privatised in the early 1990s — would be broken up before being sold , with each package containing a mixture of profit and loss-making pits . |
| 25 | The figures are due for revision before being put to David Mellor , Minister for Health , next month . |
| 26 | He was confident that Barnes would have trained without discomfort before being dispatched to join the squad at their Buckinghamshire headquarters . |
| 27 | Doubts remain about the saga of four men who spent 118 days drifting atop their upturned trimaran after it had been flipped by a huge wave before being washed up on an island near Auckland . |
| 28 | Salsabil , a 13-2 shot , took command of the Prix Marcel Boussac a furlong from home before being driven clear by Wille Carson . |
| 29 | Many people are taken away hooded and chained and are interrogated for several days before being released . |
| 30 | A characteristic Lord Joseph approach : honest , serious and keen to apologise for a complexity of thinking even before being quizzed . |