Example sentences of "before it [is] [verb] [prep] " 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 | professional nature of employment : an organisation exists before it is filled with people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unlike stone , flint or ceramics , the raw material has to undergo drastic changes before it is made into the finished artefact . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You too can read news about a week before it is printed in paper journals ! |
| 12 | We believe TIPSS to be a valuable treatment in the management of selected patients with gastrointestinal bleeding associated with portal hypertension but fuller evaluation of its indications , safety , and efficacy is required before it is adopted into general clinical practice . |
| 13 | Even if it is supposed to be pre-washed , a thorough clean is essential before it is placed in the tank . |
| 14 | before it is swept by rain . |
| 15 | But the only proven solution to green water is an ultra-violet unit fixed to treat the pond water before it is run through the filter media . |
| 16 | Some form of processing ( amplifiers ) will be used in a long-distance system to ‘ boost ’ the signal level every so often to make up for losses before it is sent on its way again . |
| 17 | Please amend the declaration on your Application if you wish to see any report before it is sent to us . |
| 18 | ( Please amend the declaration on your Application if you wish to see any report before it is sent to us . ) |
| 19 | If this facility is available , the map should be displayed on a graphics display terminal and checked for errors before it is sent to the film writer . |
| 20 | The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers . |
| 21 | RIGHT An urban site being excavated before it is destroyed by the very deep foundations of modern buildings . |
| 22 | When these designs were published , it was remarked that ‘ the room as left by the builder before it is inhabited at all , is already more than half finished . ’ |
| 23 | But there are likely to be more upsets before it is recognised by investors . |
| 24 | Kirby and his team are airlifted to an ‘ A ’ Team 's CSF camp ( called ‘ Dodge City ’ ) to bolster its defence by a South Vietnamese CIDG force before it is struck by a full-scale Viet Cong assault . |
| 25 | The commission wants Britain to build sewage works at the seaside to treat bacteria before it is pumped into the sea . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 30 | The percentage of this media type which can be used before it is considered for squeezing , in the range 1 to 100 . |