The phrase "before it was then" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a period of time before the present moment. For example: "We used to live in London before it was then."
Apparently, it was cut off during his autopsy by his somewhat cruel doctor, Francesco Autommarchi, in front of 17 witnesses, before it was then acquired by priest Abbé Anges Paul Vignali who gave the leader his last rites.
Dr Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologist, and Dr Robert Edwards, a Cambridge University physiologist pioneered the fertilisation of an egg outside a woman's body before it was then put into her womb.
SENSATIONAL allegations about bribes in the contest to host the 2010 World Cup, even including a claim that a rival bidder actually won the vote before it was then rigged in South Africa's favour, are revealed today in extracts from secret tapes released by The Sunday Times.
A solicitor acting for Robert Mann, a US lawyer who handed over more than £600,000 to Brown's fraudulent investment vehicle before it was then passed directly to the Lib Dems, said his client could now consider relaunching a writ against the party in light of the ombudsman's report.
Hindle was fouled in the area midway through the second half and stepped up to take the spot kick, but crashed the ball against the bar before it was then cleared.
They just thought that the show needed a lot of work before it was then ready for Broadway.
After all, the CIO signs off all technology procurement decisions, at least before it is then submitted to the CFO.
During the "make up" periods of supercontinental assembly, a major type of volcanic activity – arc volcanism – rises in frequency, before it's then generally silenced.
"The attacks are happening somewhere else, as the blood is usually drained from the animal before it is then left on the owner's doorstep.
The cell is then submerged in 50/50 water methanol solution and further ultrasonically cleaned for ∼1 h before being rinsed again with distilled water and followed with methanol before it is then placed inside a low-temperature (100 °C) oven to evaporate any residual methanol.
The body was identified by a doctor who had operated on Booth the year before, and it was then secretly buried, though four years later it was reinterred.
