Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dusting with malathion is probably still as effective a deterrent as any , but clearly it has to be applied early before the little blighters are on the wing . |
| 2 | AN Edinburgh man was so drunk when police stopped his car he had to be kept overnight before he could be charged , a court heard yesterday . |
| 3 | As for the Seven barrage , the proposal will need to be examined thoroughly before any conclusions are reached . |
| 4 | Having achieved this , they provoked disquiet in two quarters : first , those concerned with the defence of Basrah , up the river to the north , and the nearby port of Umm Qasr ; and , second , the government of Kuwait ( an important source of support for Iraq throughout the war ) , which had already suffered air attacks and was to be struck again before the fighting was over . |
| 5 | How it proved people had to be saved financially before you could save their souls . |
| 6 | IT IS NOT unusual for scientific predictions to be made long before techniques are available to test them — and it is particularly satisfying when such predictions are at last fulfilled . |
| 7 | Is he aware that that Committee is charged with the responsibility of assessing the legal and political impact of EEC proposals on the United Kingdom and for its reports , together with the proposals , to be debated here before decisions are made by the Ministers concerned ? |
| 8 | It must be admitted , though , that this very informal technique does require quite a lot of work to be done both before and especially after the interview and the researcher is always in danger of forgetting to put a point forward or not being able to understand his or her own notes afterwards . |
| 9 | This type of file has to be scanned completely before a single query can be answered . |
| 10 | Norway , Iceland and Japan had proposed that they be allowed to resume limited hunting of minke whales , the smallest of the great whales and the last to be hunted commercially before the moratorium went into effect . |
| 11 | Paul recalls one year when thousands of Christmas pudding ice creams were donated — however , limited freezer space meant they had to be distributed quickly before they melted . |
| 12 | Clearly , however , the port interests will have to be considered carefully before any such proposal is made . |
| 13 | Spending by British companies on research and development ( R&D ) , which dropped sharply between 1989 and 1991 as a result of the economic recession , appears to be rebounding even before any overall recovery , according to survey released last week by the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) . |
| 14 | The legislation that we intend to introduce will have to have the support of the House and the different interests will have to be brought together before such legislation can be introduced . |
| 15 | As the controls become effective , the amount of rudder will have to be reduced long before full flying speed is reached . |