adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
know
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It can not be known beforehand , he wrote.
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The odds are hypothetical, however, because state law prohibits wagers on events in which the outcome is known beforehand .
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This means that every word that the system can process has to be known beforehand , otherwise it will not be accepted.
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This implies knowledge on his part; he knows beforehand that this chronicler exists.
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But each time I ask myself I know beforehand what the answer is.
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No one could contemplate fame these days without knowing beforehand of its downside.
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But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma.
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I know beforehand that this is how these trips will go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Almost all the food was prepared beforehand .
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We had agreed beforehand not to tell anyone else about our plans.
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You should have told me beforehand that you might be late.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As any Economics 101 student could have warned beforehand , none of these schemes has had more than a marginal impact.
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Buyer behaviour must, therefore, be ascertained beforehand .
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Evidently this was not in the agreement made beforehand .
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She says she goes into training beforehand , taking extra vitamins, doing extra aerobics and eating right.
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Should there be wider discussion of these issues beforehand ?
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You are given drugs about half an hour beforehand then you're wheeled into a big room which is all tiled.
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You can brown it in hot fat beforehand if you really want to.