Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] before it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even rotted FYM must be further broken down before it is fully used . |
| 2 | Now , hurry home before it is too late . " |
| 3 | Partnership structures — in industry , education , physical and community development of all sorts — may possibly be the last chance to catch up before it is too late . |
| 4 | For reasons such as this it is important to ensure that the ‘ final edition ’ of the interview schedule has been adequately gone over and tried out before it is used in the full-scale field survey . |
| 5 | But he felt , in a way that must seem absurd when the conflict in the Falklands is dramatised repeatedly before it is even over , when the widow of an assassinated president is recreated in large in her lifetime on the epic screen , that these events were too close to be seen clearly , too large and foul and complex to be treated with decorum . |
| 6 | In a sense , the competition is judged even before it is judged . |
| 7 | The axe could easily be snatched away before it is properly planted , or else could pull straight out in soft snow . |
| 8 | Though margins on top-notch corporate loans have nearly doubled in the American market to about 50 basis points ( hundredths of one percent ) , they must widen further before it is worth lending in the midst of a recession . |
| 9 | Bunyard 's accolade referred to a perfectly ripe Cox , left on its tree until October and not snatched off before it is anywhere near maturity , as so many commercially grown apples were later treated . |