Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] early [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously there are distances that could not have been jumped by the earliest animals with proto-wings .
2 And that Marc 's fellow students should have been interviewed in the early stages of the inquiry .
3 For linguists , the Celtic family of languages is extremely interesting , while , on the literary side , medievalists are attracted by the early sagas , heroic poetry and Arthurian material ; and in the Modern period , Gaelic poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and that of the twentieth century Renaissance poets are especially popular .
4 Numerous four-terminal networks of the passive linear type have been considered in the earlier chapters , for example , transformers , attenuators , filters and phase-shift networks .
5 Similarly , at the other end of the belt , Chalk was later discovered in south-west Ireland ( where it must have been noticed by the early surveyors , but they had evidently been too scared of their autocratic director to record such an unlikely phenomenon ) .
6 Much the same impulse had been felt in the early years of reports by the APU .
7 Children are prepared from the earliest years to move through a tightly controlled educational system .
8 Great advances have been made since the early days of computing , when specialist skills were needed for such interaction .
9 I was involved because an order had been made in the early hours of 2 May .
10 Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] .
11 The officials of the Foreign Office had a fanaticism about United Kingdom membership of the EEC such as has seldom been seen since the early crusades .
12 As has already been seen in the earlier chapters , the professions most often specified are surveyors , accountants , actuaries and engineers .
13 The next pair are the training straps , which are used in the early stages to accustom sailors to footstrap use .
14 And when Lugard came to look back on what had been accomplished in the early years of British administration he singled out the improved character of the native rulers , which he attributed to ‘ the unceasing efforts and devoted ability of the British staff , who have by precept and example made them what they are today ’ .
15 Theories that attempt to unite Nature 's forces within one framework suggest that monopoles should have been produced in the early stages of the Universe : and just over a year ago Blas Cabrera , a researcher at Stanford University , thought he might have found one ( New Scientist .
16 WATER-BASED PAINTING mediums have been used from the earliest times by artists .
17 The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars .
18 They are supervised in the early days , encouraged to speak up at meetings , and they also attend training programmes which are provided for all the care assistants .
19 And if Sheffield Wednesday ( Owlsace — Ian Johnson of Vanlose , Denmark ) are consigned to an early Graves , Peter Godfrey of Chorley thinks Ron Atkinson will get the Barsac .
20 The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC .
21 With the latter , the payments are concentrated in the early years of their lives , while with the former , they are concentrated in the later years .
22 According to Interior Minister Khayreh Alaleh Hared , 68 people had been arrested in the early hours of Jan. 9 , as they were holding an illegal meeting at a local cemetery ; the attack on the barracks had taken place 90 minutes later , and the attackers had escaped , but the two incidents formed part of an attempt to destroy " the sovereignty , existence and unity of Djibouti and its economy " .
23 This association will be formed in the early stages of training but , as training proceeds and the shock loses effectiveness , some form of inhibitory learning can be expected to occur .
24 Whilst it may be in the interests of the court and a ‘ fair result ’ for as much as possible to be disclosed in the early stages so that the matters really in dispute can be identified and the strength of the evidence assessed , it will often be in the interests of the parties to conceal what they know .
25 These reports will normally be made in the early months of each financial year , allowing the inclusion of outturn information relating to the financial year just ended .
26 A particularly famous instance of the search for a natural religion is to be seen in the early years of the French Revolution .
27 There is now an expectancy effect created that any new atrocity is likely to be connected to the earlier ones .
28 The narrow definition of rape and its failure to encompass other forms of sexual assault may be attributed to the early origins of the offence .
29 The seeds of this later development may be sown during the earliest months of life .
30 Some will be needed from the early years of the primary school ( e.g. letter , full stop , sentence , etc. ) ; others are not likely to be introduced before the secondary school ( e.g. presupposition , genre , creole , etc . ) .
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