Example sentences of "[noun prp] as early [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication of the decision caused widespread consternation , not least because Lacey had informed Barr as early as Oct. 26 that there were " sufficient specific and credible allegations " to extend his inquiry . |
| 2 | An unendowed school is recorded at Low Catton as early as 1734 . |
| 3 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
| 4 | With growing princely income and expenditure , the charge of the purse became more responsible ; chamberlains appeared everywhere — in Flanders as early as the tenth century — to control it . |
| 5 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 6 | A primary education system was established throughout Ireland as early as 1831 ( see Akenson 1970 ; Lyons 1973 ; Miller 1973 ) . |
| 7 | Schmidt , born in 1918 , had been a Hitler Youth member and a lieutenant in the wartime army , but he had joined the SPD soon after the war and entered the Bundestag as early as 1953 . |
| 8 | Centres are advised to forward schemes to HCIMA as early as possible and to allow 10 weeks for the moderation process ( in order to allow for resubmissions ) . |
| 9 | Records show there was a church at Sancton as early as 1086 . |
| 10 | Collections for medical supplies were also undertaken and the first British Medical Unit of doctors and nurses , organized by the Spanish Medical Aid Committee , left for Spain as early as August 1936 . |
| 11 | Even Washington as early as 1952 was beginning to count the cost of Nato 's current defence plans . |
| 12 | Whatever Jack Higgins 's inspiration for The Eagle Has Landed , the existence of the story by Graham Greene as early as 1942 is curious , to say the least . |
| 13 | Indeed , if Wright was hiding last night , it was only as camouflage and he emphatically answered Graham as early as the sixth minute . |
| 14 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 15 | Australian and New Zealand players are set to make short trips to South Africa as early as next year when the Super Six series is expanded and called the Super Ten . |
| 16 | The same basic idea explains why cowries were mounted on horse-harnesses in many lands , including India , Persia , Hungary , Japan , and China as early as the western Zhou dynasty . |
| 17 | It was no coincidence that the first official title of the Free French movement 's executive — a title which de Gaulle had suggested to Churchill as early as July 1940 — was the Conseil de Défense de l'Empire . |
| 18 | That great convenience of Victorian house planning , the luggage entrance , was introduced for the first time at Dupplin as early as 1829 . |
| 19 | ‘ Sing we and chant it ’ is a true balletto , the opening of its second strain practically identical in every part with that of Gastoldi 's ‘ A lieta vita ’ ( which in Germany as early as 1598 was seized in toto and provided with sacred words , ‘ In dir ist Freude ’ ) yet , as Joseph Kerman has pointed out , more sophisticated in its sense of dominant contrast . |
| 20 | Comparatively little time is spent sea-watching in the early months of the year in Sussex , but substantial easterly movements have been noted off Beachy Head as early as 31 January . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Jews settled in Czechoslovakia as early as the 10C , but it was not until the 13 and 14C that a small Jewish community became a feature of every large town . |
| 23 | Dean Rusk remarked to Johnson as early as 15 April 1965 , " We have had an excellent degree of understanding and cooperation in critical foreign policy matters from the new Labor Government in Britain . " |
| 24 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 25 | Indeed , cat bones have been found associated with human settlements such as Jericho as early as nine thousand years ago , but in those cases — until now — we could not be certain about their significance . |
| 26 | Admittedly we find Abraham as early as chapter 13 walking through the length and breadth of the Promised Land , thus appearing to take legal possession of it . |
| 27 | Established as a Schallplatten Spezialhaus as early as 1927 , it derives its name from a once well-known record label on which the HMV catalogue was distributed in various European countries , with a huge manufacturing plant in Czechoslovakia . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Party was particularly concerned with gaining influence among the unemployed and was working with the NUWM as early as 1931 . |
| 30 | There are references to such ‘ gonnes ’ in accounts of the siege of Berwick as early as 1333 , while it is likely that some form of artillery was brought across the sea by the English for the long siege of Calais of 1346–7 . |