Example sentences of "[verb] before it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if knowledge proceeds on what must be presupposed before it is proved , the cover is blown on the pretensions of critical doubt . |
| 2 | Thus , you should reduce the value of each future payment by the profit earned before it is payed . |
| 3 | The grape variety used is Chenin Blanc but when it is picked before it is fully ripe , it makes dull , acidic wines , with an off-putting nose that reminds me of wet dogs . |
| 4 | An object is manufactured before it is purchased , and we therefore have a tendency to see consumption activities as the result of , or as a process secondary to , the development of manufacturing and other forms of production . |
| 5 | Rearing a child is a formative process , requiring diverse skills and a sense of how the pattern is taking shape , and the extent to which it must grow before it is complete . |
| 6 | If it has been discovered during the course of earth-moving for construction or other work , however , the site may be totally unknown ; in this case , it is important that local archaeologists are alerted as soon as possible , so that some kind of record of the site can be made before it is destroyed , or it may even be excavated if found to be important . |
| 7 | As it has previously been shown that there is no enzyme activity in either the supernatant or the brush border , the drug must be absorbed before it is acetylated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The acquisition of evidence and the presentation of evidence are linked , of course , in that it may be necessary to decide what should be presented before it is acquired although more usually it is a matter of presenting what can be acquired . |
| 10 | On the one hand , there is the infant whose every need continues to be met before it is expressed ( one whose mother can not bear the weakest cry — perhaps she herself was left to cry for too long ) . |
| 11 | The percentage of this media type which can be used before it is considered to be full , in the range 1 to 100 . |
| 12 | The percentage of this media type which can be used before it is considered for squeezing , in the range 1 to 100 . |
| 13 | This is a useful litigation tool , but it is expensive and both cost and demand need to be researched before it is installed . |
| 14 | A full survey of the Braer will be needed before it is known for certain no oil remains , but a survey can not be carried out until the weather is suitable , which could take up to three months . |
| 15 | Obviously , if the company is sold before it is completed there is no guarantee a buyer would honour the agreement . " |
| 16 | professional nature of employment : an organisation exists before it is filled with people . |
| 17 | The notion of antecedent causality arises here because an obligation necessarily exists before it is fulfilled . |
| 18 | If this is an alternative , let it be aired before it is too late to act , for the quality for life of ourselves and for our children rests upon our careful deliberation and action now : We can no longer afford the luxury of complacency and continuous contingency reactions |
| 19 | It is distinguished by its flavour , the cheese being smoked before it is left to mature . |
| 20 | The mortar shell explodes before it is fired . |
| 21 | The abyss which all this opens up is , perhaps , terrifying before it is ‘ depressing ’ . |
| 22 | No-one in authority has yet ventured to say how often a level should be attained before it is confirmed or what allowance should be made , if any , for the pupil who will unlearn . |
| 23 | Surely sense will prevail before it is too late — we can only hope … |
| 24 | It does not have to be defined before it is used . |
| 25 | And that is why democracy is to be understood as a practice before it is conceived as a set of abstractions ; why it is a system of checks and balances before it is a set of principles ; why , as has been said , it is worth just two cheers , and no more . |
| 26 | The crop must be cut before it is dead ripe to avoid shedding of grain , and because it does not stand in the sheaf to harden , it usually requires artificial drying . |
| 27 | That is the stark truth electors have to grasp before it is too late . |
| 28 | Seiko in Japan has developed an STM capable of accurately placing the needle anywhere on the five-inch wafers of silicon on which microelectronic circuitry is printed before it is diced into chips . |
| 29 | A procedure does not have to be declared before it is called . |
| 30 | I would like to urge readers , supporters and members to offer support to FAN before it is too late . |