Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] before it is " in BNC.

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1 The mortar shell explodes before it is fired .
2 The first state , called " potential meaning " , corresponds to the permanent meaning-capacity which a word or morpheme possesses before it is utilized in any particular situation .
3 professional nature of employment : an organisation exists before it is filled with people .
4 I would like to urge readers , supporters and members to offer support to FAN before it is too late .
5 Thus , you should reduce the value of each future payment by the profit earned before it is payed .
6 Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school .
7 Although our productivity compares well with coal industries in Europe , it has some way to go before it is at the level of some of the coal industries outside Europe .
8 A great deal of the plant is now under computerised control although there is still a long way to go before it is as automated as other maltings in the group .
9 Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity .
10 ‘ It is time to stop before it is too late , ’ Eduard Shevardnadze told journalists in the Abkhazian village where the plane fell , killing its pilot .
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