Example sentences of "[adv] early [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early early and late . |
| 2 | As early as 1799 he formulated the concept of the classical fixed-wing aeroplane with separate mechanisms for generating lift and propulsion , and soon afterwards began experiments with a whirling arm rig to measure the lift of wings . |
| 3 | The District Chairman and a senior member of the Bedford branch was Henry Wash who , as early as 1924 , had secured the co-operation of the county LEA . |
| 4 | As early as 1924 Herbert Morrison ( who else ? ) pointed to the four-fold increase in the Labour vote over six years , and offered an explanation of the previous poor record : |
| 5 | Drawn from stock and private sources , including the artist 's family , it comprises landscapes , nudes and flower pictures , and features both a view of a village church painted as early as 1924 and the final picture completed by Hitchens shortly before his death in 1979 . |
| 6 | In planning its programme the Association emphasized its international objectives advertising , for example , from as early as 1924 , annual holidays at two centres in the USSR : a ‘ unique opportunity to experience the USSR 's great natural beauty , priceless and world famous works of art , gigantic collective farms and the thrill of seeing in progress the greatest social experiment in the world 's history . ’ |
| 7 | But the fact that several critics began to challenge them as early as 1924 demonstrates that the campaign she had initiated in 1923 met with some success . |
| 8 | ‘ This could occur as early as 1995 and the years 1996 — 2000 should represent profitable opportunities . |
| 9 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 10 | Charles , John Wesley 's brother , co-itinerant and best-known hymn writer , noted the appearance of " exhorters " , as local prea-chers were first known , in west Cornwall as early as 1746 . |
| 11 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |
| 12 | Birds were seen on the cliffs in East Sussex as early as 1950 , but despite a considerable increase in numbers , breeding was not proved until 1976 . |
| 13 | As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences : |
| 14 | The war had no sooner ended than a Mass Observation report Puzzled People ( 1947 ) described how ‘ the explosion or disintegration of orthodox beliefs has left a vacuum ’ , and as early as 1950 the ‘ quest for a post-war purpose ’ was being anxiously scrutinised in a study of young people 's lives . |
| 15 | The Benedictine monks of the nearby abbey of Saint-Hilaire take credit for the discovery , as early as 1531 : Dom Pérignon , who is popularly regarded as the father of champagne , was cellarmaster of the abbey of Hautvilliers a good century later . |
| 16 | Nobody can say for sure when the earliest purpose-made sparkling wine was produced , but documentary evidence exists to prove that the monks of the abbey of St Hilaire in southern France had intentionally produced sparkling wines as early as 1531 , well over one hundred years before anyone attempted to do so in Champagne . |
| 17 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 18 | As early as 1694 in Philips v. Bury , Holt K.B . |
| 19 | It has already been indicated that the tendency towards greater " flexibility " within newer forms of English was noted by Graham Hough as early as 1970 . |
| 20 | Whether their monetary policy from as early as 1970 was designed to force such a devaluation is another question . |
| 21 | As early as 1970 , before linguistics became a separate department , the small group of linguistic teachers at Lancaster got together round a table , and discussed the idea of having a special research project which would be centred at Lancaster . |
| 22 | They were settled there as early as 1899 , and it was from that address that the only one of their children to marry — Henry James — set off on his wedding day , 8 September 1902 . |
| 23 | As early as 1899 he wrote on this theme in England 's Peril , and in 1906 in The Invasio n of 1910 he forecast World War I with the approbation and collaboration of the first Earl Roberts [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | As early as 1963 Cubans were helping Algeria in a border conflict with Morocco . |
| 25 | Autumn arrival has been noted as early as 10 July , but usually starts in late October , and passage has been noted in November . |
| 26 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 27 | The A state begins to be formed as early as 10 months , as awareness leads to initiatives and discovery . |
| 28 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 29 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 30 | As early as 1882 , inspired by the Mediterranean fleet 's bombardment of Alexandria , he had conceived the idea of a warship sketch-book , provisionally entitled ‘ Ironclads of the World ’ . |