Example sentences of "[noun sg] well before " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ground engineers reprogrammed IRAS to work around the fault well before the survey began . |
| 2 | But the generals could not afford to wait , and started work well before they could get any useful political guidance . |
| 3 | In all cases , the bank managers received the business plan well before the interview took place , in most cases two weeks in advance . |
| 4 | ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’ |
| 5 | Since registration forms are usually despatched in the autumn , and in any event well before this last election was announced , Ms Heseltine obviously knew something that the rest of us did n't . |
| 6 | They saw the camp-fires lighting up the winter dusk well before they reached the Hoddom area , near where the Water of Milk joined Annan , which meant , of course , that the enemy ahead presumably would be apt to see them also ; but it was practically impossible to hide the presence of a major army anyway . |
| 7 | The criterion for capitalists to scrap old equipment is not whether the machine is physically serviceable — most machinery is withdrawn from use well before it has worn out — but whether it can any longer be operated profitably And the key factor which renders unprofitable the operation of older vintages of machinery is a rise in wage costs . |
| 8 | The Edinburgh branch of the union faced particular problems from the start , then , with a sub-category of skilled , fully apprenticed but low-paid compositors in the trade well before any mention is heard of women , and with a division of labour between groups of compositors already well established . |
| 9 | The English millionaire folded his singed tents and stole away the insurance money , which did n't belong to him since I had nationalized the paper well before the fire was out . |
| 10 | In siblings : tell your child about the baby well before it 's due . |
| 11 | We pioneered the technique well before it became used on so large a scale by giants like American Express and Reader 's Digest . |
| 12 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 13 | Gary Nicholas 's translation means Welsh speakers can see the play well before an English version is staged in September . |
| 14 | Already two friends who were heading towards the key of the door well before I sat A-levels have shot time 's arrow into reverse and now they are 43 and 44 respectively . |
| 15 | The problem with pen computing , as Nick Eades , IBM 's brand manager for portables , is the first to point out , is that the handwriting recognition software needs to be a whole lot better before it can really appeal to the masses . |
| 16 | These important rights mean that the safety representatives must be consulted by the employer well before action is taken and when combined with the existing functions of safety representatives , they provide extensive rights to organize around health and safety at the workplace . |
| 17 | Since many development processes take only two to three years to complete , these estimates imply that there is a good chance that rivals will be informed about a new development project well before it is completed . |
| 18 | SCO already has a licence to SunSoft Inc 's ONC+ and says it 'll deliver that on its latest Open Desktop and Server 3.0 software well before the COSE version comes along . |
| 19 | A rattling commotion alerted me to the patrol well before it reached the alley . |
| 20 | Young male and female geladas begin to differentiate their preferences in this way well before the male separates to join an all-male group . |
| 21 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 22 | This rule ( and similar variants ) produces an optimal solution well before the enumeration tree is fully explored . |