Example sentences of "[noun pl] as early [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in developing countries are generally undereducated because young girls are often taken out of schools as early as possible to allow their mothers to work whilst they take care of younger siblings . |
| 2 | Gold was certainly used as a decorative inlay for bronzes as early as Shang times , but precious metals only began to be highly valued in China comparatively late and then as an outcome of influence from inner Asia and the west . |
| 3 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 4 | Easter Sunday morning the students would go round the bedrooms as early as 2am dressed in sheets , pretending to be angels , singing " Christ the Lord is risen today " . |
| 5 | Viability , similarly , will no longer serve as a moral cutoff point : sophisticated life-support systems can now sustain fetuses as early as 20 weeks and even that limit is being pushed further and further back towards conception . |
| 6 | THE United States , moving a step closer to a transatlantic trade war , plans to announce punitive taxes on European imports as early as today . |
| 7 | THE United States , moving a step closer to a transatlantic trade war , plans to announce punitive taxes on European imports as early as today . |
| 8 | The Pentagon believes that , using existing technology , the Russians could deploy laser weapons as early as the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | It was the identification of these problems by Czechoslovak economists as early as 1962 which launched the country onto its reformist course years before Alexander Dubček appeared on the scene . |
| 10 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
| 11 | In neighbouring HERTFORDSHIRE Wynne Norris was teaching classes as early as 1955 . |
| 12 | In summary , the future pattern will probably include the following ingredients : 1 recognition that oral reading and silent reading should proceed simultaneously , from entry into school ; 2 longer periods given to individual reading interviews , which will necessitate re-organisation of the curriculum , with a greater emphasis on group work based on collaborative learning ; 3 the group work will have clear outcomes , many of which will start with silent reading and result in reading aloud for communication ; 4 the teaching of phonics will be seen as one possible cueing system only , resulting in the use of more intrinsically interesting texts which will enable contextual hypotheses ; 5 the realisation that books as such may be diminishing , will demand that other forms of print are incorporated into reading aloud in school , for example , from computers and teletext ; 6 the teacher 's professionalism will be accepted as lying in the understanding of the reading process and the development of the child , and in his or her power to train the child to read independently for real purposes as early as possible . |
| 13 | Get actual local conditions as early as possible so as to have time to make any amendments to your plan . |
| 14 | Egypt itself had been penetrated by Greeks as early as the seventh century , when Ionian and Karian mercenaries were hired by the Saite pharaohs . |
| 15 | Many clergy , especially the royal servants among them , began to buy pardons as early as February , and in York province , which was more immediately threatened with Scottish invasion , the vast majority of the clergy had soon done so . |
| 16 | It will hold stock and spares and says it could get first machines as early as September from its US parent . |
| 17 | He had experimented with flying machines as early as 1893 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Studies as early as 1885 [ Cattell , 1885 ] showed that characters are more easily recognised when they form part of a word than when they do not . |
| 21 | Athens raised Potidaia 's tribute from six to fifteen talents as early as the period 438–434 , which means that she was pressurizing Potidaia ( ‘ encroaching ’ on allies of the Peloponnesians ) much earlier than Thucydides implies . |
| 22 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 23 | And finally , those children with reading difficulties need to be provided with remedial programmes as early as possible , and concerted efforts need to be made to minimise the sense of stigma they might experience because of their intellectual or physical disadvantage . |
| 24 | A United States Senate subcommittee investigating the BCCI scandal , chaired by John F. Kerry , heard testimony on Aug. 1 that several US government agencies knew of illegal activities as early as 1986 . |
| 25 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 26 | The very first school was , believe it or not , in Australia where a Norwegian taught the miners of the Snowy Mountains how to slide on skis as early as 1861 . |
| 27 | These were voiced most clearly by the radical priest John Ball , whose record of inflammatory preaching had brought him into conflict with the authorities as early as 1366 , and who had been imprisoned earlier in 1381 for his hostility to the Pope and the prelates ( 11 , p.372 ) . |
| 28 | Again , it must be stressed that the purchaser and vendor should involve their respective accountants in the negotiation of the rules as early as possible . |
| 29 | There were , too , distinct signs of an improvement in orders as early as the fourth quarter of 1992 , which have continued in the first quarter of 1993 , the chairman , Viscount Weir , said in London yesterday . |
| 30 | LASMO employees around the world could be linked up by the latest in high-tech communications as early as next year . |