Example sentences of "[prep] before [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what the bridge looked like before the work was carried out . |
| 2 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 3 | There are only so many people you can watch jumping up and down , and only so many slogans you can be bombarded with before the brain goes into defensive shutdown . |
| 4 | The minority still have a right to object to the court but that opposition is usually known and dealt with before the bidder becomes committed to acquire any shares in the target . |
| 5 | The same law and the same rules of construction apply both to clauses in agreements entered into before a dispute has arisen and subsequent agreements to refer entered into after a dispute has arisen . |
| 6 | The Accounting Standards Board has issued a statement setting out its policy on the applicability of accounting standards to transactions that had been entered into before the standard had been issued . |
| 7 | As someone who enjoys all forms of the arts , I should like to know what reasoning was entered into before the distribution of grants was made ? |
| 8 | The reason for prescribing this medication , and the plan for its use should be explained to the patient and agreed upon before a prescription is supplied . |
| 9 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 10 | The explanations given above provide the general framework of analysis to which the various actual uses of to before the infinitive will be referred in this study . |
| 11 | Given this shift , the appearance of to before the infinitive is not surprising . |
| 12 | There are a few preliminaries to be seen to before the construction can begin ; these are the winding of inductors L1 , L2 , L3 and the mounting details of the switching transistor TR1 and the flyback diode D1 on small heatsinks which attach directly to the board . |
| 13 | He very wealthy , but oh dear dear he was a , he was a , tyrannical I should call him , I know for a fact that he used to before the choir walked in at night he 'd have his watch out in his hand and they 'd start at exactly the same time . |
| 14 | I have a couple of things that need to be seen to before the programme goes out . ’ |
| 15 | Further questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , he conceded that no such review had taken place , and that no additional safety checks had been called for before the junction was opened , that although a total embargo had been introduced on single-lead junctions immediately after Bellgrove . |