Example sentences of "before it [vb -s] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ensure the safety of Parasene butane fuelled blowlamps , every blowlamp is ‘ burn-tested ’ before it leaves the Halesowen factory , and is an additional safety feature , all three sizes of Parasene butane gas cartridges are fitted with special twin-walled safety valves . |
| 2 | To protect each line , fuses of relevant capacity are incorporated in the positive line of the circuit before it leaves the consumer unit . |
| 3 | But as development times lengthen to six or seven years , so too do the chances that a new model will be obsolete before it leaves the drawing board . |
| 4 | The magnitude of erosion is reflected in the silt content of the Huanghe River : before it enters the Loess lands it has an average silt content of 2 kg m-3 of water , but when it leaves the region after its confluence with the Weihe the average silt content is 35 kg m- which can rise to several hundreds of kilograms after storms ( Smil 1984 ) . |
| 5 | That way it may get out of the bat 's flight path before it enters the detection range . |
| 6 | This control signal may require several stages of switched amplification before it attains the power level required at the base of the phase transistor ( SESCOM , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , engine design improvements are continuously helping to reduce the problem before it reaches the tail pipe . |
| 8 | The force-push of expanding gas on the piston is multiplied by the leverage effect of the conrod , then again by the leverage-increasing effect of gear pairs before it reaches the driving wheels . |
| 9 | The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession . |