Example sentences of "before they [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It found that on average , women expect to be taken out to dinner ten times before they 'll have sex with a man . ’ |
| 2 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 3 | So Aaron and his sons must be cleansed , robed and their sins expiated by sacrifice before they may take office . |
| 4 | They will apply to fourth and fifth-formers , aimed at providing the pupils with more choice and flexibility during the last two years before they can leave school . |
| 5 | Although … well , it does look as though it 's going to be a long time before they can leave hospital , ’ she added sorrowfully . |
| 6 | While purists may question the editing of documents , with younger age groups or lower ability , some simplification is justifiable ; pupils must be able to understand a source before they can make use of it . |
| 7 | THE chief executive of FIMBRA — the independent financial advisers ' watchdog — has proposed that his members should be specifically licensed before they can offer advice on pensions to their clients . |
| 8 | This , therefore , I can not but earnestly repeat , — Break their wills betimes ; begin this great work before they can run alone before they can speak plain , or perhaps speak at all . |
| 9 | Many do not successfully complete this journey as anemones are often a limited resource on the reef and most of the fry are eaten by predators before they can reach protection . |
| 10 | All hotels now have to satisfy a local fire officer that their precautions are up to standard before they can do business . |
| 11 | The new recruit into any organisation or group has to learn these norms and the codes of speech that groups employ before they can feel part of the group . |
| 12 | In particular consider time limits — both for enacting and for advising , perhaps the performers have to spend at least a minute improvising before they can request advice . |
| 13 | The technologists , in handling any new , slightly practically oriented subject , like quantity surveying and estate management , tended to adopt a ‘ walk before they can run approach ’ in approving unclassified degrees fairly extensively , until they found that arts and pure sciences were , for whatever reason , not going down that road to any extent . |
| 14 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 15 | ‘ We used to find that people picking up a 2D spreadsheet from another audit would spend ages trying to print it out and find out what was in there before they could start work . ’ |
| 16 | This posting was a remarkable achievement , considering the number of regular officers trying desperately to get to the front , dreading that the war would be over before they could take part . |
| 17 | Most companies insist on demonstrable quality management procedures before they will contract work at all . |
| 18 | His mere presence signals the fact that the opposition will have to bury the side ten feet under before they will concede victory . |