Example sentences of "[verb] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 4 | Ten more days were to pass before the longed for interruption to Huy 's humdrum existence occurred . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's left of poor Cosmas has been sheeted , coffined , and lies before the altar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 10 | The new papers , available on microfilm , were rescued from Joyce 's apartment in the Rue des Vignes in Paris in September 1940 , after he and his family fled before the Germans occupied the city . |
| 11 | Eric Zeisl ( 1905–59 ) was yet another of the stream of Austrian composers who fled before the jaws of Hitler 's army , though his music has met with less acclaim than that of many of his fellow refugees . |
| 12 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 13 | All outrage fled before the hideous prospect of being thrown into the streets on such a night . |
| 14 | Her tiredness fled before the immediate prospect of encountering her new employer . |
| 15 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 16 | If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work . |
| 17 | If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work . |
| 18 | There are two important issues to be resolved before the character of the economic and monetary union will be determined . |
| 19 | I just hope it 's resolved before the show — if Dana does n't surface we shall be short of our top model . ’ |
| 20 | Baker said at a press conference in Berlin on June 20 that three main problems remained to be resolved before the conclusion of a START agreement : a common definition of new types of missiles ; agreement on the number of warheads allocated to each ballistic missile ; and greater transparency of telemetric inscription ( the coded electronic information carried by strategic weapons ) . |
| 21 | All errors must be resolved before the DC can be updated . |
| 22 | All errors must be resolved before the DC can be updated . |
| 23 | All errors must be resolved before the DC can be updated . |
| 24 | All errors must be resolved before the DC can be updated . |
| 25 | All errors must be resolved before the SPR can be updated . |
| 26 | All errors must be resolved before the SPR can be updated . |
| 27 | All errors must be resolved before the SSR can be updated . |
| 28 | All errors must be resolved before the SSR can be updated . |
| 29 | We present data suggesting that the N-Oct 5A and 5B proteins are generated by alternative translation initiation at internal AUG residues which are located before the POU domain . |
| 30 | But Irvine 's job boost comes at the expense of Workington , where Volvo 's bus operations were located before the transfer to Scotland as part of a rationalisation . |