Example sentences of "[verb] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the intrusion does not have time to freeze before subsequent or continued injection , then the ‘ lubricated ’ region may channel magma towards the eventual eruption site . |
| 2 | The alloy of which they were made age-hardened quickly at normal temperatures , and all rivets had to be chilled before use . |
| 3 | Yet , whenever she contemplated a resumption of the life she had enjoyed before her initial meeting with Johnny , she felt a rising panic and a disinclination amounting almost to hostility at the very idea . |
| 4 | Neither the Swedish nor the Danish navies were able to recover after the Great Northern War ( 1700–21 ) the importance they had enjoyed before its outbreak . |
| 5 | He allowed several moments to pass before daring to return her smile . |
| 6 | The legend of El Cid began there , but nearly a thousand years were to pass before the true story of his life and deeds began to be known . |
| 7 | She nodded from one to the other ; then watched the young man open the door and stand aside to allow his wife to pass before him . |
| 8 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
| 9 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 10 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 11 | Ten more days were to pass before the longed for interruption to Huy 's humdrum existence occurred . |
| 12 | The messages for local managers are that there is a need to allow time to pass before the linked activities which revolve around the three major innovations of the 1980s ( NCVQ , TVEI extension , TECs ) reveal how much they can contribute to each other in terms of an essentially joint strategy . |
| 13 | Both just have one more examination to pass before gaining their Securities Institure Diploma . |
| 14 | The two trainee investment managers at Charterhouse Tilney 's Liverpool office in the Royal Liver Building now have only one more of three exams to pass before qualifying for their Securities Institute Diploma . |
| 15 | He pauses before answering , eyes going up and down , mouth narrowing to a leery smile . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 17 | She and her husband have also learned to make a family joke out of the situation , trying to guess before each visit how many times Jane 's mother will criticise her . |
| 18 | For example , a work placement involves trawling for candidates , testing and form-filling and preliminary sifts before the interview followed by induction and training after the interview . |
| 19 | The Princesse sighed and then with a smile urged the girls to go off and unpack before having a swim . |
| 20 | My dear chap , a different path lies before each man and no one of us can tell what road he may chance to follow . ’ |
| 21 | She keeps nothing hidden from Edward , so confident is she of his love and so secure in her belief in the future that lies before them , unconventional and home-based : |
| 22 | The price achieved is a timely illustration of the challenge which lies before our new Secretary of State for National Heritage . ’ |
| 23 | And should you — like the peacock — desire to spread your wings , then all India lies before you , from the historic glories of the Moghul north to the sun-soaked beaches of the south . |
| 24 | I have come to you tonight as much to thank you for that answer as to explain to those of you who already plan to make your home in Eretz — and to any others who may make such a decision in the future — what lies before you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The hardest part of the journey lies before us . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What 's left of poor Cosmas has been sheeted , coffined , and lies before the altar . |
| 27 | At the same time it should make us aware of the enormity of the task that still lies before us in developing an adequate analysis of the art made by artists for whom ‘ being a woman ’ was not a given , but something to be explored through a historically shaped and socially conditioned artistic . |
| 28 | ‘ Hell lies before them , ’ went on Dr Ali , in conversational tones . |
| 29 | All four disks were put on to the printer 's hard disk and the images were fine-tuned before the final film and plates were made . |
| 30 | As the cost of Eurofighter increases does there come a point where like the F twenty two i it becomes unaffordable and by how much would the performance of Eurofighter have to be degraded before it becomes equivalent to the nearest alternative ? |