Example sentences of "[noun pl] before it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) has insisted on additional environmental safeguards before it will give approval to a controversial plan to burn orimulsion at two power stations in Wales and Lancashire . |
| 2 | Heavy rains at the beginning of June alleviated the problem only partly , since much of the water evaporates or is used by plants before it can seep through to replenish aquifers . |
| 3 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |
| 4 | A US congressional delegation said on Sept. 8 , after meeting both Gamsakhurdia and opposition leaders , that Georgia had to improve its record on human rights before it could expect to receive international recognition . |
| 5 | He stated that the Soviet Union had to negotiate the return of the islands before it could hope for improved co-operation with Japan . |
| 6 | The only exception is where it appears to a court that the reporting of the proceedings before it might prejudice the administration of justice in other proceedings imminently pending in another court , or shortly to follow thereafter . |
| 7 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 8 | The SD Ribbon is relatively insensitive and needs a good 50–100 Watts before it will blow properly , but even taking this into account , many amplifiers will sound harsh , grainy or in some other way ill at ease , especially if the volume is would up . |
| 9 | All the others before it will have hierarchical actions , each setting up the subsidiary search which was solved by the following rule . |
| 10 | A building society must attract deposits before it can grant a mortgage ( loan ) to a borrower to purchase a house , unlike a bank which can create a deposit by granting a loan . |
| 11 | Mean time between failures on 3.5 ’ disk drives made by IBM Corp of 750,000 hours will have to get a lot nearer the 2m or more hours of the company 's manhole cover disks before it can entrust mainframe data to arrays of the little ones , Electronic News reports : that 's funny , we thought the whole idea of disk arrays was that one built sufficient redundancy into the array of cheap disks that no-one need worry about failures ever again . |
| 12 | At last night 's summit Denmark was also heavily criticised after it demanded further opt-outs before it will sign the agreement . |
| 13 | A computer would have to be given knowledge about human eating habits before it could interpret this . |