Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [art] earlier [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments .
2 Silvio Bedini has commented that ‘ although the invention of the candle timepiece has been traditionally ascribed to Alfred the Great of England , it obviously had an earlier history in the Orient ’ .
3 What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture .
4 The timing is quite nice really and deliberately so in that this will be the follow up to that in a way and it also follows the earlier conference , as you 've heard .
5 One may look not only at the rest of the section in which the word appears but at the statute as a whole , and even at earlier legislation dealing with the same subject-matter — for it is assumed that when Parliament passed an Act , it probably had the earlier legislation in mind , and probably intended to use words with the same meaning as before .
6 THE TIMES described a street view by de St. Croix as " resembling an exquisite mezzotint " — but it far surpasses the earlier process .
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