Example sentences of "[noun pl] before they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) Standing orders Beyond the requirement that the Houses shall ‘ pass ’ Bills before they receive the Royal Assent , the common law has little to say about the Houses of Parliament . |
| 2 | She blinked as they emerged into blinding brightness and searing heat , and paused to fumble for her sunglasses before they descended the broad flight of steps that led down to the canal . |
| 3 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 4 | To achieve complete combustion , in most cases , high temperatures in the order of 600–900°C , for not less than 0.3 seconds are required , in order to ignite and burn the odorous gases before they form the fine carbon of black smoke which is far more difficult to burn . |
| 5 | The disciples were told , before , ten days before they received the Holy Spirit that they were to be witnesses unto him . |
| 6 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 7 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 8 | By contrast , Aung San and Thakin Nu were unknown less than ten years before they compelled the British to concede their demands . |
| 9 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 10 | Which was , say , when they 'd started the the roll of bacon , there always used to be some little bits before they got the full rashers , well , you could n't sell those , you could n't s I mean even though things were tight in those days , you could n't sell any sort of bacon , you either sold best back , or you sold belly bacon . |
| 11 | Traditionally such a media filters out loose particles before they reach the main biological area . |
| 12 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 13 | A state of complete submissiveness can thus be established in all children before they reach the fifth or sixth year of life … |
| 14 | Now they restrict cattle to the 14-hectare hillside plot which they 've had since 1979 — and from which they used to scrape a living of maize and beans before they invaded the valley-bottom land at La Colorada . |
| 15 | It was two more hours before they reached the barbed-wire perimeter that had been erected to stop the Germans breaking through . |
| 16 | One , in order that the old type of arrangement you know , would no longer prevail , and that subsequently if people were going to have assemblies , part assemblies before they assembled the whole unit , then whole areas would have to be cleared , new benches would have to be built , the departments would have to be totally gone through you know , and all the rubbish cleared out and , and access and egress you know , to every department to make life easier for everybody . |