Example sentences of "way before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet a revolution in the way football is run in a number of these countries was already under way before the democratisation set in . |
| 2 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 3 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
| 4 | William Cooper , for example , suggested that for his contemporaries , ‘ the Experimental Novel had got to be brushed out of the way before we could get a proper hearing ’ ( in Rabinovitz 1967 : 7 ) , and C. P. Snow explained in 1958 that : |
| 5 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 6 | In addition to the splitting there has occurred some penetration of very thin plates of bone such as occur on the scapula ( Fig. 1.4N ) and some breakage of the borders of such bone ( the scapula illustrated here was not modified in any way before it was exposed for weathering ) . |
| 7 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 8 | If the switch acts fast enough and at random , then the photons will be well on their way before the detector has been selected . |
| 9 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 10 | They had their midday meal fairly early , so as to have it out of the way before their peculiar visitor arrived . |
| 11 | But this process may be well under way before it becomes apparent . |
| 12 | However , she could only get up a little way before she tumbled backwards , as the jar had a heavy glass base which proved impossible to overbalance . |
| 13 | One successful American developer sold practically all his second phase units in this way before he actually put them onto the market . |
| 14 | She 'd pushed her bicycle most of the way before she collected enough sense to get on and ride it . |
| 15 | Swap these over to try the other way before you decide which is best . |
| 16 | He knew who he was and what he wanted to do way before most people . |
| 17 | A safety catch must first be pushed out of the way before the lever can be raised to retract the undercarriage , but there is also a ‘ squat ’ switch arrangement to prevent accidental retraction while the weight of the aircraft is on its wheels . |
| 18 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 19 | BEST to be in bed and out of the way before Mr Evans came home ! |
| 20 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 21 | The Bar examinations should , of course , be got out of the way before pupillage commences , for you can not do two things at once . |
| 22 | Three fathers of cases and two fathers of controls ( and no mothers of either ) had been monitored in this way before their child was conceived ( relative risk 9.0 , 95% confidence interval 1.0 to 107.8 ) . |
| 23 | A lot A lot of well quite a few people and I mean th have been in the flats way before I came to . |
| 24 | The dried egg and fried bread were less attractive than ever and the grey day had hardly got under way before I was approaching the forbidding facade of Regent Lodge . |
| 25 | This marking-out to get an impression of the finished feature is not peculiar to concrete pools , for it will be realized that any pool made with a material that the gardener can mould to suit his whim can be assessed this way before excavations begin . |
| 26 | Josie said that she did n't usually get in until around six , but that there were a few extra jobs that she wanted to finish off ; Lucy had the feeling , but did n't say so , that the main point of the exercise was probably to get her out of the way before the slender red-haired woman arrived home . |
| 27 | and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people . |
| 28 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 29 | ‘ We have to get you out of the way before we deal with the Emperor . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You want me out of the way before Adam arrives . |