Example sentences of "[adj] before [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the draftsman should be especially careful before embarking on a long list of matters that fall within a particular covenant . |
| 2 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 3 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 4 | But you may have to think hard and long and reject many ideas that seemed promising before arriving at an ending to your book that is at once what everyone all along expected and what no one , or hardly anyone , thought would happen in that way . |
| 5 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 6 | But she would have to wait until the dog was fast asleep before going into the garden . |
| 7 | This is an additional cost for one or more of the parties and is in itself a reason for ensuring that disputes are resolved wherever possible before referring to a third party for resolution . |
| 8 | The Plan is only a proposal at this stage and the Regional Council wishes to receive as many views as possible before coming to a decision . |
| 9 | If the reader or his partner(s) are members of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute , it is recommended that an approach is made to tax counsel for an opinion under the special terms available before hearing by the Commissioners . |
| 10 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 11 | A great many of the physical features of polymer composites are shared by all composite materials and we shall devote the largest part of this chapter to the topic of the mechanical properties of composites in general before particularizing on the features peculiar to polymers . |
| 12 | It is suggested that the taking of medical advice and careful consultation with the employee concerned are essential before coming to a final decision on the matter . |
| 13 | Although the major theoretical explanations are covered in the numerous introductions to the sociology of crime and deviance and to sociology generally , some review of these theories is necessary before embarking upon an examination of specific , substantive examples of criminal behaviour . |
| 14 | Alternatively David Blair 's WAX uses low-budget computer tech and digital FX to mix original film and animation , found footage and a zoned-out voiceover , as it follows a weapons industry worker who , via a television implanted in his head by bees , visits the land of the dead before turning into a smart bomb in Iraq . |