Example sentences of "[v-ing] as early [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easier for the Thatcherites to attack the welfare state successfully because its principles and institutions had not been adequately defended , as Dorothy Wedderburn and others were warning as early as 1964 ( Wedderburn , 1965 ) . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Bell , writing as early as 1959 , concluded from a study involving older children that : |
| 4 | The control of downy mildew is preventative , not curative , therefore the vigneron must commence spraying as early as possible prior to the flowering if the first infection is to be prevented . |
| 5 | The market-boast died first , as one by one , IBM 's hottest new products fell by the wayside , starting as early as Series/1 and the 8100 , continuing through System 38 , which was excellent , but scared IBM 's mainframe mafia too much , to the RT , such a disaster that when it came to the RS/6000 , IBM had to play new kid on the block and study and try to emulate the leaders in the Unix market to get the thing off the ground at all . |
| 6 | The diary of a Middlesex parson , the Rev B.J. Armstrong , shows us what a devastating effect they were having as early as the 1830s . |
| 7 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 8 | Chemics ' manager Frank Myler said : ‘ He could be playing as early as October . |
| 9 | The 68040-based machine is being designed for Apple 's A/UX version of Unix and will inherit much of the Quadra 900 's architecture , the paper says , and is expected to be announced in October for shipping as early as January 1993 . |
| 10 | The alarm bells began ringing as early as the seventh minute when Albert Craig struck the post from a narrow angle after capitalising on a moment 's hesitation in the home defence . |
| 11 | There is , however , an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image , a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933 : ‘ … some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress ‘ a la Mexicana ’ , but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' |
| 12 | They had in fact been reported missing as early as 1952 , well before Lydie Huyghe took over and to everyone 's embarrassment were found in a cupboard in a corridor during the latest inventory . |