Example sentences of "[noun] before [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest , for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop . |
| 2 | All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary . |
| 3 | The user , seated in front of a video display unit ( VDU ) , interacts directly with the computer , inspecting the results produced by one request before deciding on the next . |
| 4 | Backfilling consists of putting in a layer of aggregate followed by layers of earth , tamping down each layer before shovelling on the next . |
| 5 | If a read or write operation is started on a peripheral device , the computer awaits the completion of this operation before continuing with the next . |
| 6 | It gained 14 points in early trading but was down almost 25 points before rallying in the last hour to close 20.3 lower at 2,818.0 , with just under 600 million shares changing hands . |
| 7 | Scan radially out from the AH to each performance instrument , returning to the AH each time before proceeding to the next instrument . |
| 8 | When one horizontal line of knots has been tied , they are beaten tightly together with the weaver 's comb before starting on the next line , and this continues upwards until the rug has been completed . |
| 9 | If no such solution can be found , we impose the constraint that the first objective function should not drop below its optimal value before turning to the second objective . |
| 10 | Such extractions are often required in molecular biology work to inactivate and remove enzymes used in one step before proceeding to the next . |
| 11 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |