Example sentences of "of [noun] before a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is dangerous to generalise about matters of fact , it may be asserted that it will require a considerable degree of intoxication before a defendant can plausibly make such claims . |
| 2 | On and upward , slow now with the altitude telling on legs and lungs alike , the route was measured in numbers of steps before a rest was needed . |
| 3 | In a reaction between two gases A and B , a molecule of A must collide with a molecule of B before a reaction will occur . |
| 4 | This view has not , however , been taken by the courts , which have generally insisted upon some evidence of consent before a jury direction on consent is required . |
| 5 | Bacteria which normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes can also form themselves into environmentally resistant spores capable of lying dormant , even entombed in rock , for maybe millions of years before a change of circumstance permits their release with continued growth and reproduction . |
| 6 | By contrast , advance apportionment of costs before a dispute has arisen is illegal in arbitrations : s18(3) of the Arbitration Act 1950 . |
| 7 | Within the Comintern schema ( outlined at the 1928 Congress ) Latin America 's fundamentally agrarian economic structure required that it attain the capitalist stage of development before a transition to socialism was possible . |
| 8 | We talked to lots of people before a friend at Royal Bank introduced me to Sid Proctor , then the bank 's chief executive . |
| 9 | CRUMLIN Road jail escaper Joe Doherty should have had the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before a decision was taken to delay a review of his sentence until he had served 10 years in Northern Ireland , a court has heard . |
| 10 | By section 5 of the 1987 Act , the liability covered by Part I of the Act extends to : a ) death or personal injury , b ) damage to or destruction of any item of property ( including land ) other than the defective product itself ( there is a lower threshold of £275 before a claim can be made ) provided that the property ; i ) is the type normally intended for private use and consumption , and ii ) it is used mainly for the private use or consumption of the person claiming . |
| 11 | A respondent from a large practice took the pragmatic view that it was only a matter of time before a computer fraud took place on a scale which made the current level of claims pale into insignificance , making the introduction of a cap imperative . |
| 12 | It was only a matter of time before a competitor sprang on the market . |
| 13 | It is only a matter of time before a tragedy occurs . ’ |
| 14 | Coastguards fear it is only a matter of time before a sightseer is injured in the hazardous scramble down rocks onto the ship 's deck . |
| 15 | It is surely only a matter of time before a tray falls from his hands on to a lady or gentleman 's lap . |