Example sentences of "[adv] early [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Burgundy , there is evidence that suggests the vine was well established as early as pre-Christian times , and that wines with a reputation for excellence were soon being produced . |
| 32 | As early as 1826 he served as a university examiner in mathematics , the first of many occasions . |
| 33 | Rights were conferred upon one Thomas Thurland ( a clergyman and Master of the Savoy Hospital ) , Sebastian Spydell and John Steynbergh as early as 1561 to search for mineral thought little positive was achieved . |
| 34 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 35 | As early as 1848–9 a new and distinctive type of station had appeared . |
| 36 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 37 | Thus the " domino " theory , later articulated by the Americans , was anticipated by the British as early as 1948 – 49 . |
| 38 | As early as 994 Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury was forced to borrow £115 from Bishop Æscwig of Dorchester to prevent the raiders burning his cathedral to the ground , giving in return an estate in Buckinghamshire . |
| 39 | The restrictive nature of the Stock Exchange 's rulebook had been drawn to the attention of the Director General of Fair Trading as early as 1976 ; three years later proceedings commenced . |
| 40 | As early as 1976 , the Layfield Committee was distinguishing not between counties and districts , but between ‘ major spending authorities ’ and the rest in their discussions of the possible introduction of a local income tax ( Layfield 1976:196 ) . |
| 41 | Even as early as 1919 scientists warned of the dangers of an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations . |
| 42 | Wordsworth had been exhausted by his efforts as early as 1804 ( see Ode to Duty ) , and he would probably have returned to conventional pieties and religion even if his brother 's death had not accelerated to process . |
| 43 | As early as 1884 the Xhosa editor John Tengu Jabavu launched Imvo Zaba Ntsundu ( ‘ Native Opinion ’ ) , which campaigned for African political rights . |
| 44 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 45 | In neighbouring HERTFORDSHIRE Wynne Norris was teaching classes as early as 1955 . |
| 46 | As early as 1955 , for example , he had floated the idea of a new " association " between Algeria and France . |
| 47 | As early as 1931 Morton Salt got into chemicals with brine extracts used by the pharmaceutical , photographic and rubber industries . |
| 48 | The Party was particularly concerned with gaining influence among the unemployed and was working with the NUWM as early as 1931 . |
| 49 | Children repair what they themselves say from as early as one or one-and-a-half years of age . |
| 50 | Pancreatic hyperplasia can be detected as early as one week after 90% PSBR and persists for at least six months . |
| 51 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 52 | ‘ As early as that ? ’ |
| 53 | I had never been awake in it as early as that before . |
| 54 | It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that . |
| 55 | " As early as that ? " queried Mrs Groves . |
| 56 | She says I think the greatest problem for me is the mornings — having to work early — starting work at half past seven — there is n't a bus as early as that , leaving from Langford village into Bicester — so normally I have to walk it which takes 20-25 minutes — in the cold , which I absolutely hate ! |
| 57 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 58 | The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 . |
| 59 | As early as 1568 the translation of the first book of Polybius by Christopher Watson of St John 's College , Cambridge , was preceded by a poem in honour of the historian : Polybius reede where as in deede good physike shoult thou finde . |
| 60 | His work became the subject of college analysis and European film festivals which , incidentally , were recognizing his work with retrospectives as early as 1964 . |