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 | 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 . |
| 4 | His company Citymystic spent £800,000 on the popular venue before it crashed in 1989 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was glad to see the old area before it crashed to the ground ; there was not much left as it was . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 3 Turning into the attack , the defender pre-empts the move and back-palms the oncoming punch before it has time to gain power . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Pay special attention to removing any surplus food before it decays ( hence the suggestion that you keep with floating , rather than sinking , pellets ) . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Methodism seemed to encircle the little town before it entered it . |
| 14 | Tiny three-dimensional holograms formed and faded in the air above the set , each figure giving its brief report before it vanished . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She decided against it in the end , not because she was afraid of any brutish remarks he might — not might , would , she corrected — make when he saw her , but because , from where she viewed it , this was going to be a tough enough weekend without her inviting hassle before it began . |
| 17 | A firm tap on the hindquarters , accompanied by ‘ no ’ and ‘ bed ’ if appropriate , depending on the room , should put a stop to this destructive behaviour before it becomes a serious problem . |
| 18 | It was a good picture before it became a bad picture . |
| 19 | Although I still suffer from headaches , it takes a lot more physical and mental stress before it manifests . |
| 20 | Powerful amplifiers can be turned down for a small hall , but a weak amplifier has no potential for increased volume before it starts distorting the sound . |
| 21 | Low-revs pulling power is to be had , though the motor prefers to see upwards of 2,000 on an easily-read tacho before it tries hard . |
| 22 | Control of population growth is important for economic and social progress in developing countries but whether the world 's population will reach two , three , or four times its present size before it stabilises will depend very much on the rate of fertility decline in this decade , says a report from Population Action International . |
| 23 | This control signal may require several stages of switched amplification before it attains the power level required at the base of the phase transistor ( SESCOM , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here . |
| 25 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 26 | The European Court has in fact held that the internal competence may be exercised at the same time as the external competence so that the Community acquired the power to negotiate an international agreement before it had in fact exercised its internal powers , and this theory had in fact been taken further in the fisheries sector in the judgment in the Kramer cases . |
| 27 | Here was a march for political purposes with racial characteristics and though legal and provided with police protection , it was to become the subject of great protest before it began . |
| 28 | The mini-skirt spread through the western world from many centres ; it appeared in Oxford Street , London , long before it reached Oxford Street , Swansea , and presumably it was seen in Chicago , Illinois , an appreciable time before it dazzled the male eyes of the " city " of Muddy in the south of the same state . |
| 29 | The road winds on to Arco de São Jorge and then goes in and round a deep ravine before it reaches Boaventura ( 65km ) . |
| 30 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |