Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] before it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then someone offered to adopt the cat and the local vet was called in to give the animal a clean bill of health before it was moved to its new , permanent home . |
| 2 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 3 | It would only be a matter of time before it was discovered but it was the best she could do in such a short time . |
| 4 | And it was easy to believe that the evidence for test-tube fusion was fairly solid , good enough that it would be only a matter of time before it was proven definitively , especially with the BYU people already claiming to have some independent evidence . |
| 5 | If a complete unified theory was discovered , it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified in the same way and taught in schools , at least in outline . |
| 6 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 7 | The road was too rough for one thought to rest long in mind before it was cannoned out by another . |
| 8 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |