Example sentences of "before being [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both could have passed through any number of hands before being finally installed in the Toshiba radio-cassette player used to house the Lockerbie bomb . |
| 2 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |
| 3 | It was seen as a mask , a helmet fitting and a standard before being correctly identified in the 1950s . |
| 4 | The supply from the cold water cistern to the normal hot water cylinder passes through the solar cylinder where it is pre-heated before being further heated in the main hot water cylinder if necessary . |
| 5 | The elimination of corruption from the party was one of the major demands of the pro-democracy movement which flourished for seven weeks between April to June 1989 before being brutally suppressed by the armed forces . |