Example sentences of "[prep] [be] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how ill did you have to be before you died ? |
| 2 | they say to me , how many of them do there have to be before you think you 've got enough on your list . |
| 3 | There are formal procedures for deciding how large a difference in the ds needs to be before we decide to take the interaction seriously , but these are beyond the scope of this book . |
| 4 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 5 | long it 's going to be before it 's all over and we can go home . ’ |
| 6 | If you were going to live your life again , how old would you think you 'd have to be before you felt mature enough to make the decision to get married ? |
| 7 | You see ads for PCs promoting themselves as ‘ network-ready ’ and you wonder just how ready a PC needs to be before it can be used on a LAN . |
| 8 | As Carmel finished the 3s , she came to me and whispered : ‘ I think I can see what the 5s are going to be before I do it ’ , and she explained her prediction . |
| 9 | However , how long does a period of unemployment have to be before people become disheartened and experience a loss of self worth ? |
| 10 | How old do you have to be before you can have the privilege of being murdered ? |
| 11 | The question then arises as to how specific the Community legislation has to be before it precludes national legislation . |
| 12 | How safe does a drug have to be before it receives a certificate ? |
| 13 | Is he arguing — as he seemed to be before he lurched off into the quotation — that no examination result should be made available to Scottish parents ? |
| 14 | With the advances in information technology , answers to many questions could be delivered in minutes , not just on industrial issues , like how cold does it have to be before we stop work , or how heavy a load should I lift , but other questions not related to work that we have not always answered in the past . |
| 15 | I think th the difficulty with that kind of day is that unless you 've decided what the outcome 's going to be before you start , you 're not actually going together are you ? |
| 16 | Try and find out from your expert exactly how long it is likely to be before the report is available . |
| 17 | ‘ And it would have to be before you require our services . |
| 18 | Alright , th the saying in the paper , they 're talking about stopping these big companies , keeping these little companies waiting there could be something they can do about that , but how long is it going to be before they do something ? |
| 19 | How long 's our Mum going to be before she comes in ? |
| 20 | I said to that bloke today well how , how long am I gon na be before I go to court , he said it could be two years away |