Example sentences of "[conj] before [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if someone had had an accident and could not work , his shaikh consulted other elderly men before making a levy , or before drawing on the lineage bank account . |
| 2 | Little heed seems to have been paid to the argument that before stepping into an airliner everyone knows a slight risk is involved . |
| 3 | Is it true that before singing in Suede , Brett played the part of Jill in Eastenders ? |
| 4 | I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made . |
| 5 | It is possible that before going into liquidation the buyer had paid part of the price to the seller . |
| 6 | Mr Beckett makes the point that before embarking on such a venture the land would need to be fully assessed to determine the stocking rate . |
| 7 | So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps . |
| 8 | Walk on to Aberforest Bay and before descending to Aberforest itself , cross a stile near the first white house you reach . |
| 9 | On the strength of this , the Swiss issued arrest warrants for all the DEA/CIA targets , and before returning in triumph to Paris , Jafaar rounded off his winter 's work by trapping Haser into a highly incriminating recorded conversation about heroin and morphine base shipments . |
| 10 | The first thing the men did , upon receiving the news , and before fending for themselves , was to move their women and children to safety , generally into one of the secret corries in the hills . |
| 11 | When toilet training , a systematic approach of putting the child on the potty or the lavatory after each meal and before going to bed can start to establish a routine and pattern ( Levine and Bakow 1976 ) . |
| 12 | Patients in one group were given Reflotron machines ( Boehringer Mannheim , Germany ) and were asked to measure their triglyceride concentrations at home , before meals and before going to bed , twice a week and to record the results in diaries . |
| 13 | It can only be proceeded with with the government 's consent , and before going into committee the appropriate Minister has to tell the House that the proposed spending has the government 's approval . |
| 14 | The restraint of trade doctrine is , therefore , an aspect of public policy and before relying on older authorities it must be remembered that the perception of what constitutes public policy may change . |
| 15 | The stronger sense of is strike off " , wrench loose " , and this is surely the last in a progression of " violent " verbs , beginning with diffugere and going on through and before coming to ( or rather , ) at the poem 's despairing close . |
| 16 | For instance where machinery or surfaces , through lack of space or layout limitations , must be used for both cooked and raw meats disinfection should take place after each use with raw meat and before changing to cooked meat . |
| 17 | So Kelly changed to go , but before leaving for London , she wrote a brief letter to Dermot Kinane . |
| 18 | But before leaving by train for his annual Scottish holiday on that Friday evening , he inquired whether the Prime Minister wished him to change his plans . |
| 19 | But before expanding on this interpretation it is necessary to consider some evidence that is apparently directly contradictory . |
| 20 | But before proceeding to optimism I have to introduce some harsh truths . |
| 21 | The upper rooms were silent when he finally went to his own room , but before getting into bed he pushed his wedge of broken chair-leg under the door to keep the Bogeyman out . |
| 22 | But before getting into bed she emptied her bag out on it for a final attempt to work out what he had wanted , possibly taken . |
| 23 | But before looking at the idea behind this revolution in printing , consider its consequences . |
| 24 | But before looking at the two most important examples of planning for peace , the Beveridge Report and the Butler Education Act of 1944 , it is important to note a number of ways in which peacetime policy changes were foreshadowed by ad hoc wartime measures . |
| 25 | A White Paper outlined their proposals in February 1971 and legislation followed in the parliamentary session of 1971 — 72 ; but before looking in detail at the consequent Local Government Act 1972 , a few general considerations need to be discussed . |
| 26 | But before looking in more detail at these developments we must clarify the focus of our argument . |
| 27 | But before jumping to that conclusion it is worth pondering whether the weed is more resistant to husbandry practice rather than the herbicide . |
| 28 | But before writing to her friend of the matter , the queen-dowager debated whether or not it was necessary to burden her with the knowledge . |
| 29 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 30 | We attempt to do this in the next chapter , but before embarking on this task we must note some of the criticisms which have been made about the Braverman thesis and its implications . |