Example sentences of "[noun] before they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 2 | APTS are currently concentrating their campaign on schools , trying to deter youngsters from petty crime before they have a chance to start . |
| 3 | 5 Implementation of the ‘ precautionary principle ’ so that we anticipate problems and take action before they become acute . |
| 4 | Implementation of the ‘ precautionary principle ’ so that we anticipate problems and take action before they become acute . |
| 5 | According to a spokesman for the Birmingham Midshires building society , which still provides finance for self-build schemes , people are now encouraged to sell their first homes before they start building a new one . |
| 6 | Most young drivers have spent very little time behind the wheel before they pass their test and in many cases , they 're the ones at fault when accidents happen . |
| 7 | Each remembered all too clearly Okawi 's parting words before they had pushed each canoe clear of the beach : |
| 8 | Myeloski took some Polaroid pictures before they left , having sent Duncan to the car for his camera . |
| 9 | The Palestinians are determined to reach agreement on Israel recognising the PLO before they will sign a historic declaration of principles on Palestinian self-rule worked out in months of secret talks between the two sides . |
| 10 | Time for a cup of tea before they 're due in down the road . |
| 11 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 12 | This will free people from thinking they need to know the future before they prophesy . |
| 13 | During building renovations in a Milan flat at the end of October , copies of letters were discovered written in 1978 by the then DC president , Aldo Moro , while he was being held captive by the Red Brigades before they murdered him [ see pp. 29053-55 ] . |
| 14 | They will have to ask permission from the match umpires before they can use their fingers to scratch mud from the surface of the ball . |
| 15 | Although the animal was slow to mature ( some claimed that it would keep growing until it was six years old ) the new society was able to show that properly managed steers could reach market weights before they were two years old . |
| 16 | ‘ Luftwaffe pilot , but even he had to do it from Canada into the States before they were in the war . ’ |
| 17 | Each explanation creates anomalies but , as noted , a theory can live with many anomalies before they need be deemed counter-examples . |
| 18 | The minor age differences between zircons and other kimberlite minerals may result from the second magmatic pulse required to account for the disruption and deformation of MARID nodules before they are incorporated in the final erupted kimberlite . |
| 19 | This leads us to propose the ‘ causal direction hypothesis ’ : children learn about the role of causal connectives as indicators of which event is cause and which effect before they learn about their role as indicators of which event happened first . |
| 20 | As we have seen , such claims require more precise demonstration before they can be readily accepted and Olson would not be justified in using the facility of written English to ‘ disambiguate ’ some units of structure , such as sentences and words , as proof of its overcoming ambiguity . |
| 21 | " No , I have to slip along pretty sharpish and get some money on to Lal 's horse before they go out . |
| 22 | And yet , as the sentry yelled for a stable boy to take Guy 's horse before they mounted the outer stairway of the forebuilding , he felt every muscle in his body tighten . |
| 23 | There were also obvious international reasons to try to defuse crises before they developed . |
| 24 | Because iron structural members were used in circumstances where great strength was required , it is very unlikely that serious defects , such as could affect timber or masonry before they become unsafe , can arise without causing collapse . |
| 25 | They usually manages to make them last a week and drop them in here on Friday before they go home . |
| 26 | It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor 's department before they speak extrajudicially in public . |
| 27 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 28 | This time around , Chadwick 's approach to recording the album was to spend as much time as possible rehearsing and re-rehearsing the songs before they went into the studio . |
| 29 | She 'll be in Famagusta before they can touch her . |
| 30 | They do not proceed to ask what is your religion before they serve . |