Example sentences of "before be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 3 | He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield . |
| 4 | Remember that the values read from the games port can be mathematically manipulated before being sent to the controller circuit . |
| 5 | Northern Ireland minister Michael Mates was also a regular before being sent to Ulster . |
| 6 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 7 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 8 | After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US . |
| 9 | Later in the war he commanded two more divisions , before being sent to Berlin early in 1919 as the head of the British military mission . |
| 10 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 11 | The caravan was stolen from a service station at Barton , near Darlington before being moved to the farm at Hetton-le-Hole . |
| 12 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 13 | Brian Cook and John Craven went through the PR OCU as a crew in late 1964–1965 before being posted to 39 Squadron . |
| 14 | THE business dealings of a £40,000-a-year financial consultant , who was lured to a bogus appointment in a wealthy Home Counties village before being battered to death with a claw hammer , were being studied by police yesterday . |
| 15 | There was Irene Munro , who had improved her complexion with Icilma cream before being battered to death for her handbag on a beach . |
| 16 | Rubino claimed that the verdict projected the USA in the role of " world policeman " , capable of " imposing its will upon so-called independent sovereign nations " , a reference to the December 1989 US military invasion of Panama during which Noriega was seized before being flown to the USA [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 17 | They collected tons of blankets and food , stockpiled in Worcester before being flown to Iraq . |
| 18 | Born Teesside , he was educated at Dulwich College , London School of Economics , City University and Inns of Court before being called to the bar in 1985 . |
| 19 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 20 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 21 | Pin 3 waveforms are inverted before being applied to the switching transistor ( TR1 ) . |
| 22 | In this text , which is aimed at senior undergraduate students of engineering , the subject of matrices is described and developed before being applied to some of the problems of engineering dynamics . |
| 23 | Digital phase control signals are generated by the microprocessor and amplified by the drive circuit before being applied to the motor . |
| 24 | The cheque funds ( amount ) have to be collected by the exporter 's bank before being credited to the exporter 's account . |
| 25 | The shafts sprang into the air and I was dangled like a gymnast on parallel bars , before being tossed to the ground . |
| 26 | Dogged police work by the Lockerbie investigation team , allied with the forensic skill of the Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead , Kent , established that the bomb had most likely been loaded in a suitcase at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 27 | The detectives are concentrating on the theory that the bomb was loaded at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 28 | Then the pulp was crushed to extract the juice , and the liquid was left for up to three months to ferment before being transferred to casks for maturing . |
| 29 | The two unsynchronized tapes were then simply mixed together back at base before being transferred to disc . |
| 30 | Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch . |