The phrase "settle beforehand" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to speak about something that you have already agreed to and taken care of before anything else happens. For example: "The couple had settled the details of their divorce beforehand, so the court hearing was quick and painless."
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand.
An employment tribunal hearing would take place in public and could be potentially embarrassing for the club, and for that reason such cases are usually settled beforehand.
This is the most important and the one that is most likely to lead to prosecutions and steep fines, assuming it's not settled beforehand.
Australia, put in to bat, were dismissed for 268, four overs before the second new ball was due, for which Andrew Strauss would cheerfully have settled beforehand.
Spurs fans would have eagerly settled beforehand for putting four past Arsenal, yet even at something below their best Arsène Wenger's side were still capable of replying with five.
The publisher is also attempting to reach a settlement with the singer Charlotte Church, whose legal action will proceed to a full trial at the high court on Monday unless it is settled beforehand.
The Roman Catholic Church is deeply opposed to experiments involving human embryos, even those created outside the womb, and Mr. Bush may want to have the matter settled beforehand so that he would neither offend Catholics by appearing to ignore the pontiff's entreaties nor appear to be influenced by the pope.
By them, in a country where all men are free, every man finds that what most matters has been settled beforehand" (211).
Nonetheless, whether immunotherapy can profit from using tumor-exosomes as adjuvant can easily be settled beforehand in vitro.
The nomination had been sewn up weeks in advance, and, in an orchestrated attempt to present a united front, the Party bosses had worked to settle their differences beforehand.
"With people, you don't have to take them for a run for 20 minutes beforehand to settle them down," she explained.
