The phrase "predicted beforehand" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe situations when something is predicted or expected to happen before it actually does. For example, "The meteorologist accurately predicted the storm beforehand, so people had plenty of time to prepare."
Perhaps this performance could have been predicted beforehand.
"I can't see how he or even the team's ownership could have predicted beforehand the extent of the financial issues they currently face," he said.
The Olympic Games was fun, and gave pleasure to a lot of people, but now it is over, and life is getting back to normal – as anybody could have predicted beforehand.
As Philip Gould, who would later become Mr Blair's chief pollster, predicted beforehand, "in the polling booth people may be more likely to vote for the devil they know and dislike than the devil they do not fully trust".
It was unfortunate that the possibility of this M 9 event could not be predicted beforehand.
In practice, the success of image thresholding could be predicted beforehand with the aid of obtainable scene parameters.
If the result would have been nigh on impossible to predict beforehand, it seemed even more unlikely after Edin Dzeko thumped a wonderful 25-yard shot beyond David Marshall seven minutes into the second half to give the visitors the lead.
"The problem for us as doctors fitting [the implant] is that we can't predict beforehand who is going to be affected," says Dickson. "What we very much encourage is that if women are affected by the bleeding pattern, they go and seek help from their clinic or GP as soon as it starts to be annoying for them because there are interventions," she adds.
The environment features are difficult to predict beforehand due to their variations.
For them, genes alone cannot predict beforehand what will be the thoughts or the psychic characteristics of any individual, albeit a human clone.
For example, engineers may feel compelled to act in a certain way due to hierarchical or market constraints, and negative consequences may be very hard or impossible to predict beforehand.
