Example sentences of "before it can [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is no evidence that zinc metal was ever prepared in Africa — it has to be made by condensation since it volatilises before it can be reduced from the ore . |
| 9 | Apart from the question of the number of dimensions that space-time appears to have , string theory still has several other problems that must be solved before it can be acclaimed as the ultimate unified theory of physics . |
| 10 | The Client must have been created before it can be used at this option . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He will thus avoid buying material before it can be used by accepting a small and defined risk of delaying production . |
| 13 | He will thus avoid buying material before it can be used by accepting a small and defined risk of delaying production . |
| 14 | The Product must have been created before it can be used by this option , and must still be unregistered . |
| 15 | The Product must have been updated before it can be used by this option , and must still be unregistered . |