Example sentences of "[prep] earliest " in BNC.
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| 1 | of earliest documentary film . |
| 2 | She traces the origins of language interactions in the communicative patterns of earliest infancy , suggests some valuable features of what is sometimes dismissed as ‘ baby talk ’ and with extensive reference to the research literature , reviews a whole range of features of adult language that are thought to assist the child 's task of language learning . |
| 3 | May it not be that the outcome reflects the real motive — the wish to procure an external realization of a regressive , inner phantasy , that of the supreme parent of earliest childhood ? |
| 4 | Tell me what you remember about the Palfry Working Men 's Club , your sort of earliest memories of it |
| 5 | Then , at least seven days before the day fixed for hearing , the plaintiff is to file one copy of a paginated and indexed bundle ( with earliest date on top ) comprising the documents on which either party intends to rely , or which either party wishes to have before the court . |
| 6 | He served in the Colonial Administrative Service of the Gold Coast from 1945 to 1957 and , from earliest days , was convinced of the urgent need to Africanise the civil service , in preparation for independence . |
| 7 | He is not afraid to come before us in this book as a full-blown figure , someone who is quite recognizable ( from earliest school letters and the accounts of Kirkpatrick ) as ‘ the real Lewis ’ but who is also , for the first time , ‘ found ’ as an artistic voice . |
| 8 | When she saw her gesture performed by a sister who had been admiring and imitating her from earliest childhood , she felt a certain unease : the adult gesture did not fit an eleven-year-old child . |
| 9 | From earliest years , each of our four children have been introduced to the gentle art and they are all still keen anglers . |
| 10 | Cleveleys has always been an important destination on the Blackpool and Fleetwood line , with an intermediate service operating there from earliest Company days . |
| 11 | It was a momentary thought , quickly dispelled when Sara took Hartley in her arms ; but from it crystallized the firm decision that both Hartley and any other children they might have should be spared a city childhood , and be ‘ bred up from earliest infancy in the simplicity of peasants , their food , dress , and habits completely rustic ’ . |
| 12 | This museum 's displays illustrate the history of leather use from earliest times to the present day . |
| 13 | From earliest days , the proportion of the hexagon was recommended to be 5 units deep , 4 units wide with the cross-spars 3 units apart and this simple formula with units at 500mm ( 19¾in ) has sufficed adequately . |
| 14 | It lacks the ‘ glad preamble ’ of the later texts , and by beginning at ‘ Was it for this … ’ ( 1805 Book i , line 271 ) appears to trace the growth of the mind from earliest consciousness . |
| 15 | His own experiences crowd upon him , even from earliest infancy ; he recognizes them as the sources of his own creative powers ; it is as if doors were ‘ open ’ . |
| 16 | From earliest times it has been assumed that at least some dreams are important — bearing messages either from the gods or from the dreamer 's subconscious , depending upon one 's cultural context . |
| 17 | Members of several gangs , from earliest teens to twenties , crowded the cracked plastic benches in the reception vestibule or squatted on the floor , awaiting processing , a slow operation . |
| 18 | To Rich , from earliest childhood , as Cis was ‘ more mother to me than any mother could ever have been ’ so Ifor was the chieftain brother , indomitable protector in the rough and wreckage of those valleys . |
| 19 | Fish provided a harvest from earliest times . |
| 20 | the story of Wales from earliest times |
| 21 | The " balm " of Gilead ( an area roughly east of the Jordan and north of the Jabbok ) was famous , and the spice-trade an important one from earliest times . |
| 22 | Copies were sent to John Hayward , Herbert Read , and perhaps others — from earliest days , as we have seen , he had relied upon the advice and encouragement of friends . |
| 23 | Typical of the electric effects are the advertising blimp — Scott wanted it to look like his memories from earliest childhood of wartime barrage balloons — and the many neon signs , particularly the giant billboard screen showing an oriental girl . |
| 24 | From earliest childhood , through trance and possession , they practise surrendering to other than themselves . |
| 25 | The importance of these spiritual disciplines is also recognized in Islam , where from earliest times there has been a certain class of men known as ‘ The Weepers ’ , who devote themselves to ascetic practices . |
| 26 | His bright and affectionate nature won him numerous friends from earliest schooldays . |
| 27 | This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn . |
| 28 | From earliest times the pope 's court acted as the centre of justice , the " seat of justice " as Pope Innocent II had called it . |
| 29 | Although born in the city , she enjoyed from earliest childhood the spring and summer excursions when the yellow was on the broom , and she could accompany her mother on hawking expeditions ‘ up the Dee and doon the Don . ’ |
| 30 | The problem has its origin in earliest childhood . |