Example sentences of "[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 It does not keep so well , so make and ice the cake shortly before it is to be eaten .
3 The axe could easily be snatched away before it is properly planted , or else could pull straight out in soft snow .
4 The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 When the desired entry is not on that track , these search figures become a full revolution and one-and-a-half revolutions respectively before it is clear that the record is not on the track , and the search must continue on a further track .
8 Now , hurry home before it is too late . "
9 Give it up before it is too late .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 For this reason we urge the Government to revise it thoroughly before it is published .
13 For this reason we urge the Government to revise it thoroughly before it is published .
14 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 .
15 His message to all farmers of the world is crystal clear ; get off the chemical treadmill now before it is too late .
16 Fly up now before it is too late .
17 The effect of the Transfer Regulations is that the contracts of employment of the persons working in the business immediately before it is transferred are novated automatically to the purchaser on completion of the transfer .
18 In a sense , the competition is judged even before it is judged .
19 COUNCIL TAX is the son of Poll Tax and even before it is levied is growing up as monstrous as its father .
20 This may be given by reference to time elapsing after the date of issue of the document , and it is quite possible for the time-limit to be passed before the document can be served or even before it is received by the Central Authority .
21 But for the local manufacturers , we pedal it and dress it up here before it is delivered , so that it 's then in its final beauty , ready for being cut up into the various items of saddlery .
22 Since many development processes take only two to three years to complete , these estimates imply that there is a good chance that rivals will be informed about a new development project well before it is completed .
23 Paradise is lost , so to speak , almost before it is found , and it is never possessed and savoured .
24 It gets dark , it 'll be dark there before it is dark here
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