Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had made her realize that even with proved adultery it would be a long and uncertain fight before she would be allowed to take away both children as the Italian courts would be reluctant to let the prince 's son be brought up outside his own country . |
| 2 | Once the casualty is out of the car , paramedics from the county 's ambulance trust take over , sustaining the patient before she can be driven to hospital . |
| 3 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 4 | She died , aged 19 , in 1445 before she could be married to James Douglas , third Earl of Angus . |
| 5 | Many dictate that you must give up your smelly , messy , untrained child-eater ( their opinion , not ours ) before you may be considered lucky enough to be offered lodgings . |
| 6 | Before you will be accepted you must provide evidence of satisfactory financial support to cover your fees , research costs and living expenses throughout the likely period of your postgraduate studies . |
| 7 | You have to establish your bona fides before you can be listened to . " |
| 8 | ‘ It is a police requirement that you have to be an active member of a club before you can be recommended to apply to purchase a firearm . ’ |
| 9 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 10 | Although the Museum 's buildings were insured , it will be months , perhaps a year before they might be replaced . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that , given the current level of resources , both financial and human , the Council would be in a position to initiate central development of these courses in the near future , and it would therefore be some time before they would be incorporated into the new style provision . |
| 12 | Each explanation creates anomalies but , as noted , a theory can live with many anomalies before they need be deemed counter-examples . |
| 13 | With only 10 days to finalise the proposals before they must be announced in the Queen 's Speech , Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , chaired by her senior adviser , Professor Brian Griffiths , is also understood to be considering plans to make sharply increased tuition fees , rather than the block grant , the main means of distributing public money to higher education . |
| 14 | Plenty of time before they 'd be missed . |
| 15 | They still require experimental evidence before they can be accepted as fact . |
| 16 | Likewise , concepts which are used in abstract glossaries of urban regeneration good practice need to be examined in practice before they can be accepted as universally applicable . |
| 17 | This examination must be passed before they can be accepted for the remainder of the course . |
| 18 | The signal contents of these responses need careful reconsideration before they can be related to VOR adaptation . |
| 19 | They are often written as well to support private ventures by British firms , which are showing promise , but need a Staff Target or Operational Requirement before they can be given official consideration . |
| 20 | Thus , any shares offered for sale must first be offered to other shareholders before they can be transferred to a third party . |
| 21 | But they have to be dried in sunlight before they can be fired . |
| 22 | Before they can be transmitted , all TV commercials have to be approved by the Independent Television Association , ITVA . |
| 23 | It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed . |
| 24 | Before they can be implemented , they need to be turned into meaningful schemes of work . |
| 25 | So many people visit the countryside and pick wild flowers because they find them pretty , only to have those flowers wilt and die long before they can be arranged in a vase . |
| 26 | It will require improvements in oil-drilling techniques before they can be exploited . |
| 27 | It is recommended that the UK government should press for all development plans to be agreed with conservation authorities before they can be adopted . |
| 28 | The British Government should press for all agricultural development plans , which are likely to be broadened in their scope and available to a larger proportion of ( particularly smaller ) farms , to be agreed with conservation authorities before they can be adopted . |
| 29 | The prospect for holding UDC schedules as a thesaurus is promising , but the schedules will need some adjustment before they can be adopted in an operational system . |
| 30 | SCOTVEC supports developments which allow greatly flexibility in the achievement of qualifications and has formulated a policy on APL which states the criteria which centres have to satisfy before they can be approved to offer an APL service . |