Example sentences of "before it was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | had been responsible for running the ‘ Popp : maltings in Louth before it was de-commissioned in the mid 80s , and if this was not enough , he has been the mentor of many newcomers to the industry , providing induction training to all levels of new recruits from director level down . |
| 2 | It was soon realised , however , that injections of procaine were effective in relieving the symptoms of arthritis , and this method of treatment became quite popular in Europe before it was eclipsed by the discovery of cortisone . |
| 3 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 4 | This aircraft subsequently underwent numerous design changes before it was incorporated into the Type 4 jet aircraft , which enjoyed later fame as the DeHavilland Comet . |
| 5 | The Dnestr region , however , in the east of Moldava , with a population of 700,000 mainly Russian speakers , which had been a part of Ukraine before it was incorporated into the Moldavan territory annexed by Stalin from Romania in 1940 , declared its wish to remain part of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 7 | The Gare d'Orsay like the Gare de l'Est before it was regarded as the model station and strongly influenced others , notably Hamburg ( 1906 ) , Copenhagen Central ( 1911 ) , and the two New York stations , Pennsylvania and Grand Central . |
| 8 | His passenger Anthony Ballard , 17 , of Cradley , West Midlands , scrambled free of the wreckage before it was hit by the train , and escaped with whiplash injuries and shock , said a British transport police spokesman . |
| 9 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 10 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |
| 11 | Whether the ball was over the line before it was crossed by the Newcastle inside-right , Richardson , remained a matter for argument for years after . |
| 12 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 13 | The engine was rebuilt and was run four more hours on a test stand before it was mounted in the aircraft with then , ten hours total running time . |
| 14 | Commissioned by the Department of Energy ( before it was merged with the Department of Trade and Industry ) , the report , entitled " The Social Cost of Fuel Cycles " , draws on existing information to calculate money values for the non-market costs of fuels . |
| 15 | Football , however , had lost much of its rumbustiousness before it was outlawed from the streets . |
| 16 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 17 | But this bridging paper had apparently been shown to , and agreed with , the Israeli negotiators before it was shown to the Palestinians . |
| 18 | Imagine working with plant that was obsolete even before it was installed in the 1940s . |
| 19 | Rittner saw the work in the artist 's studio shortly before it was installed in the Tate Gallery 's Octagon Room last October , and suggested its title with Seville in mind . |
| 20 | Although the provenance of the offence was the subject of some doubts , its existence was affirmed by the House of Lords in Button and Swain , and the offence was judicially extended in several ways shortly before it was abolished by the Act . |
| 21 | But The Stars Bow Down , with its biblical theme of Joseph and his brethren , though published in 1939 had to wait ten years before it was performed at the Malvern festival . |
| 22 | The Power Challenge series uses the high-end TFP variant of Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 RISC — MIPS began development of the part in conjunction with Silicon Graphics before it was acquired by the latter — which is optimised for floating point performance . |
| 23 | They had received the reports in the Place of Healing , where the body lay in the courtyard , protected from the flies and the heat by wet wrappings , waiting for someone to claim it and give permission for an examination to begin , before it was taken to the embalmers . |
| 24 | Galecron ( the brand name for the formulation , chlordimeform ) was widely used as a pesticide before it was taken off the market briefly in 1976 after it was found to increase tumours in mice . |
| 25 | There is no record of the history of this manuscript before it was bought for the British Museum in 1836 , but it appears possible that the Jouglet it contains could be one text forming a bridge between the French fabliaux and the Anglo-Norman . |
| 26 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 27 | Piphros ' one big eye that she could see looked at her reproachfully before it was entered by the moving , living tentacle of slime . |
| 28 | By the second day of the exhibition , and before it was opened to the general public , he had appointed the judges . |
| 29 | The work had scarcely got into its stride before it was interrupted by the outbreak of the Wars of Independence . |