Example sentences of "before it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rye must be soaked in hot water to destroy an anti-growth hormone in the seed coat before it is given to livestock , but triticale kernels can be fed directly to livestock with no harmful side-effects . |
| 2 | When the selected material is brought to the sacrificial enclosure in a ceremonial procession , a consecrated ‘ pot ’ or ‘ puma-kumbha ’ is installed and the stone or wood is subjected to set rituals before it is given to the sculptor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | professional nature of employment : an organisation exists before it is filled with people . |
| 5 | Gof or gove means the corn in the ear or the mow or stack ; that is , before it is threshed . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 7 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We will be in contact with the council to discuss this proposal before it is implemented . |
| 8 | of course , er provide a copy of that to erm doctor before it is lodged and , I 'm sure it can be agreed |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Second , the speed to go through an object before it is hit out of the way must be developed . |
| 11 | A true ham is the whole rear leg of the pig and is cut from the carcase before it is prepared . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The notion of antecedent causality arises here because an obligation necessarily exists before it is fulfilled . |
| 14 | The mortar shell explodes before it is fired . |
| 15 | I understand it , is that erm , even given that this case is arguable , erm alright let it be argued out , but if , if er , before it is argued out you 're not entitled to collect money from a simple fund , you are frustrating the objectives of the directive |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The MNOD interpretation is displayed as a standard musical score so that the user can correct any errors that may have crept into the interpretation before it is written as standard MIDI information . |
| 18 | A new questionnaire should always be piloted , that is tried out on a small sample , before it is finalised . |
| 19 | That period is to all intents and purposes part of the sentence , and he ought to know everything that is said about him before it is fixed . |
| 20 | You can then either hem and gather it with shirring tape before it is fixed to the walls ; or let it gather itself naturally as you push the rods through the turned-over hems at top and bottom . |
| 21 | The new deal , if completed , will be presented to representatives of six Premier League clubs on Thursday for initial examination before it is ratified by the entire membership . |
| 22 | Unlike stone , flint or ceramics , the raw material has to undergo drastic changes before it is made into the finished artefact . |
| 23 | Although judges should approve it before it is made , they normally make no enquiries and allow the parties to say whatever they like . |
| 24 | If not , how few Tory Members do there need to be in Scotland before it is accepted that the status quo is no longer tenable ? |
| 25 | Thirteen of the 14 Nottinghamshire collieries require low-chlorine coal from opencast sites to sweeten their product , on a ratio of 6 tonnes deep mined to 1 tonne open cast , before it is accepted by the power generating companies . |
| 26 | Two photographs are taken of each specimen in situ before it is sacked in two successive Teflon bags and shipped frozen to NASA 's Johnson Space Center in Houston . |
| 27 | You too can read news about a week before it is printed in paper journals ! |
| 28 | The number is rounded ( NOT truncated ) to this size before it is printed . |
| 29 | The Parliament will have as many as four opportunities to review proposed legislation before it is adopted . |
| 30 | Therefore , in a time of radical change in systems of community care , care programming will inevitably have to wait its turn , and may even have to prove its worth before it is adopted fully by health and social services . |