Example sentences of "before it can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paint has cracked in several places , especially in the central panel of the composition , and needs to be restored and given a proper backing before it can be displayed . |
| 2 | The idea is a strange one and it will require some preliminaries before it can be explained . |
| 3 | The most prominent example occurs in the immunoglobulin genes , where one of the many available gene segments encoding a variable region must be brought to a position next to the remainder of the gene before it can be expressed . |
| 4 | Mr Patten said this would put Britain in front of Europe but acknowledged that it may be some time before it can be implemented . |
| 5 | Basic to all operant conditioning is the principle that the response must occur before it can be reinforced ( Rivers 1964 , p32 ) . |
| 6 | This is familiar language , and Eleanor Gordon and others have argued that much more investigation of the circumstances of setting up women 's unions is needed before it can be accepted at face value , Material obstacles made union membership difficult for women : their low pay made it hard to pay dues , while their domestic duties as daughters and sisters , not to mention the question of staying out late , made it hard to attend meetings . |
| 7 | Note 1 to the definition stipulates that , where the Panel has ruled that a group of persons is acting in concert , it will be necessary for sufficient evidence to be presented to the Panel before it can be accepted that the position no longer exists . |
| 8 | Depending on its strength and the time required for it to reach maturity , a beer must stand for 12 to 48 hours before it can be drunk . |
| 9 | In the latter case one is confronted by something like a functioning assembly which needs to be dismantled and analysed before it can be understood , whereas in the former case one has something much more like an ‘ exploded ’ view of things as seen in a working drawing . |
| 10 | Reference to the track index This will take between three-quarters of a revolution and a full revolution as the start of the index will need to be located before it can be searched . |
| 11 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |
| 12 | It 's grown on huge farms called plantations , and it has to be planted , as the name suggests , cultivated and harvested , before it can be packed into great ships and sent to us . |
| 13 | The disadvantage of the Helblaster is that it is impossible to reload on the battlefield — each barrel has to be removed and fitted with a new charge before it can be replaced on the gun . |
| 14 | ‘ If a judgment requires , before it can be made , the existence of some facts then , although the evaluation of those facts is for the Secretary of State alone , the court must inquire whether those facts exist , and have been taken into account , whether the judgment has been made upon a proper self-direction as to those facts , whether the judgment has not been made upon other facts which ought not to have been taken into account . |
| 15 | Town water , although potable , is often unsuitable for textile processes such as package-dyeing because it contains suspended matter and soluble calcium and magnesium salts ; filtration and softening may be necessary before it can be employed with confidence in a process in which impurities can filter out upon yarn or fabric . |
| 16 | The module must be brought back on line before it can be installed/deinstalled . |
| 17 | How much time must elapse before it can be decided that a programme has seriously degenerated , that it is incapable of leading to the discovery of new phenomena ? |
| 18 | This is tantamount to saying that before it can be regarded as an adequate replacement for a falsified theory , a newly and boldly proposed theory must make some novel predictions that are confirmed . |
| 19 | The punching elbow must be flexed before it can be extended fully , and any attempt to strike with a semi-extended arm is sure to fail because of the obvious weakness of the technique . |
| 20 | Obviously , the regiment must include a standard bearer before it can be given a magic standard . |
| 21 | ‘ Myth is alive at once and in all its parts , and dies before it can be dissected ’ , declared Tolkien , and his statement is more than usually true of The Lord of the Rings , as I have said on p. 100 above . |
| 22 | ‘ Already there seems to me to be in existence a new kind of human being who is living ahead of the meaning of our time , knowing only that meaning has to be lived before it can be known . ’ |
| 23 | Of all the aircraft to move , the Dornier will be the first , needing the removal of the engines , the wing and the tailplane before it can be brought out of the Museum , through the Bomber Command Hall . |
| 24 | This link between subjectivity and subjection , which for the ( political ) post/modernist has to be disclosed before it can be disarticulated , is , by comparison , both assumed and manifestly endorsed in the Renaissance . |
| 25 | This is a moot point which requires further study before it can be resolved . |
| 26 | Note that all the files to be included as part of a FOREIGN module must be on the user 's account before it can be entered . |
| 27 | Taking the Dornier 's position will be Hudson A16-199 , itself needing the other wings removed before it can be towed from its current position through the Sydney Camm Hall in the centre of the display area , and back down past the Beaufighter and Belvedere , finally being positioned opposite the Stranraer flying-boat . |
| 28 | They say that the water may have to be treated with chlorine , blasted with ultra-violet light , pasteurised and given other treatments before it can be re-used . |
| 29 | It takes a day or two to harden before it can be worked . |
| 30 | CLI is currently out in review form at the moment — the group says it has to be fine-tuned before it can be released to members in July . |