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Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems to fight for every piece of ground.
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Before Brabantio reaches Othello, news arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus ; therefore Othello is summoned to advise the senators.
Before it reaches the sea, the river drops over a 12-foot high vertical weir called the Slaughterhouse Falls.
Before it reaches Rotterdam, it joins with the Meuse near Woudrichem to form the Boven Merwede.
Before the yellow or " light-straw " color reaches the edge, the smith removes the heat.
Before the motorway reaches its eastern terminal at Hattersley / Mottram roundabout ( where traffic continues along the A57 into Longdendale ), there are the stub ' ski ramps ' where the motorway would have continued eastwards, as there are at the western end.
Before building the dam, Reclamation identified two possible sites, both located in the narrow lower reaches of Glen Canyon shortly upstream of Lee's Ferry.
Before it reaches the shore, the boat begins to sink and Ruth jumps off to pull it along to the pier before it sinks, though doing so causes her to suffer injuries from the lake's acidity.
Before the Han Dynasty, the Yangtze followed a more northerly course through what is now Lake Longgan ( 龍感湖 ) whilst Pengli Marsh formed the lower reaches of the Gan River.
Before the water reaches the falls it is split into two branches by the Kreenholm island, thus the falls consist of two sections: Kreenholm Falls to the west of the island ( 60 m in width, 6. 5 m high with multiple terraces ) and Joala Falls to the east ( 110 m in width, up to 6. 5 m high ).
Before it reaches 100 km, when its second stage fires and incinerates the earth, Polly pushes an emergency button that ejects all the animals in escape pods.
Before it reaches the sea, Hubbard is joined by the Valerie Glacier to the west, which, through forward surges of its own ice, has contributed to the advance of the ice flow that experts believe will eventually dam the Russell Fiord from Disenchantment Bay waters.
Before the ball reaches a batsman ( left ) the bat is held in a high backlift, before stepping forward and swinging through for a forward drive ( right ).
: Before man reaches the moon your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to England, to India or to Australia by guided missiles .... We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.
Before Lizzie reaches the stadium, Peter has already lost two sets and is running behind in the third one due to the fast and forceful tricky serves by Jake.
Before he even reaches Vermissa, he already has a reputation.
Before the pulse reaches the sample, some of the light is reflected by a dichroic mirror and gets detected by a photodiode that activates a delay generator controlling a gated optical intensifier ( GOI ) that sits in front of your CCD detector.
# A Kiss Before Dying The feud between Palisades and SVH reaches a deadly conclusion when Christian Gorman is accidentally killed, and Jessica wins the surfing contest.
Before he reaches the cave, a pair of elevator doors closes, which the hunter runs into.
Before the construction of the Shasta and Keswick Dams, Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Trout were free to migrate to the upper reaches of the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud Rivers to spawn.
Before the tube reaches the ovule, the nucleus of the generative cell in the pollen grain divides and gives rise to two sperm nuclei which are then discharged through the tube into the ovule for fertilization.
" Before the estuary of the Loire became silted up in late Roman times, the Bay of Biscay led into a wide gulf, now represented by the lower reaches of the river Brivet and the marshes of the Brière, between Paimboeuf and St. Nazaire, in which were a number of islands.
Before and plains
Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.
Before 1870, westward movement in the USA was largely across the plains with little or no settlement occurring.
Before European settlement saltbush, cotton bush and native grasses are likely to have been the main plant cover on the plains.
Before then, says Polybius, " These plains were anciently inhabited by Etruscans ", before the Gauls took the entire Po valley from them.
* Oklahoma and southern US plains Before recorded history American Indians in this area used songs and instrumentation ; music and dance remain the core of ceremonial and social activities.
Before the era of firearms, these nomads were militarily superior to the agricultural states on the periphery of the Eurasian continent and, if they broke out into the plains of northern India or the valleys of China, were all but unstoppable.
Before the Hringvegur ( the main ring road round the island ) was built, people feared traversing the plains in front of the volcano because of the frequent jökulhlaups ( glacial floods ) and the deep rivers to be crossed, although the road is still vulnerable to major events.
" Before the invention of the cowboy hat ( which means before John B. Stetson came along ), the cowpunchers of the plains wore castoffs of previous lives and vocations.
Before the city was established, herds of animals followed the rains and moved across the plains from Mount Kilimanjaro to Mount Kenya, a migration as great as the migration that takes place on the Serengeti.
Before the coming of the Noldor it was spoken far and wide in Beleriand ( save in Ossiriand ) and all the names of places, of rivers, woods, fields, plains, hills and mountains were given in this tongue.
Before Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century, Taiwanese aborigines lived in numerous tribal systems uniquely autonomous of each other ; with populations between a thousand and a hundred, a census conducted by Dutch colonizers in 1650 surmised that there were below 50, 000 natives in the plains area.
Before and receives
Before Macbeth ’ s opponents arrive, he receives news that Lady Macbeth has killed herself, causing him to sink into a deep and pessimistic despair and deliver his " Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow " soliloquy ( 5. 5. 17 – 28 ).
Before a recipient receives a transfusion, compatibility testing between donor and recipient blood must be done.
I Have Always Been Here Before, a 43-track compilation of his post-Elevators music, was released in 2005, and Erickson receives full royalties for the set.
Before this, however, everyone receives a payment from the owners for the part they had in the burial process.
The application of the doctrine of popular sovereignty receives particular emphasis in American history, notes historian Christian G. Fritz's American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War, a study of the early history of American constitutionalism.
Before he can have the three women arrested, Hart receives an unexpected visit from Russell Tinsworthy ( Sterling Hayden ), the Chairman of the Board.
Before Stephen leaves the flagship he receives a covert mission involving landing on the French coast near Brest.
Before Cardiff hosted its first Test match in July 2009, Old Trafford was reputedly the wettest Test ground in the country ; this is because Manchester, situated west of the Pennines, receives weather brought in from the Atlantic by the prevailing westerly breezes.
Before it does, however, he receives a signal purportedly from the year 2349.
Before about 1970, most studies involved non-mammals — fish, frogs, birds-that is, species in which the tectum is the dominant structure that receives input from the eyes.
Before leaving he receives news that his mother, Jean ( Hershey ), is in the hospital because of a stroke and is near death.
Before the Halliwells release her spirit, Melinda receives a glimpse of a distant future with her power of premonition.
Before the fleet leaves for Endor, Leia receives Luke's message from R2, which reveals that they are twins and that Vader is their father.
Before he can leave, he receives a phone call from Dimitrij Volkov, H. A. R. M.
* Day 3: Before A receives B's acceptance, B telephones A and states she wishes to reject the offer.
Before long, Bart receives a credit card.
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