Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 2 | The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s ; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier , equally artificial and isolated one . |
| 3 | These appear to relate to an earlier phase of ocean spreading during late Triassic times , and were carried to their present positions in nappes formed during the Cretaceous , as in eastern Europe . |
| 4 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 5 | Not only were the sites of their cancer much more significant compared to their ‘ matched ’ counterparts , but they had also arrived at Bristol when their disease was already worse and therefore more likely to lead to an earlier death . |
| 6 | If an individual has problems at a particular stage he or she tends to regress to an earlier stage and to be dominated , or fixated , by the behaviour and attitudes of that stage . |
| 7 | A round arch near the pulpit is thought by some authorities to belong to an earlier period . |
| 8 | In academic writings it is probably more common to look to an earlier period as the time when family solidarity was of prime importance . |
| 9 | Colin Stephens added the conversion to go with an earlier penalty for a 10-0 lead . |
| 10 | In 1801 he wrapped the plain and pleasing ashlar face around what little he decided to retain of the earlier house . |
| 11 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 12 | In addition to the two partners , the project is to draw on an earlier agreement between Northern Telecom and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc for developing Service Management Systems . |
| 13 | To allow pupils to start at an earlier age , teaching will start in P6 , though our system is designed to cope with entrants at P7 and S1 as well . |
| 14 | Impending bankruptcy It may be preferred to activate the power to expel at an earlier date in the bankruptcy process so as to minimise the damage caused to the firm by protracted , and possibly contested proceedings . |
| 15 | Our Solar System is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , and one might extend this to the whole of our galaxy to allow for an earlier generation of stars that created the heavier elements . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're always undermining me , ’ Avril accused James when he tried to respond to an earlier complaint she had made ( 'You always opt out at the first hint of difficulty' ) , and she reprimanded the children . |
| 17 | Since the matter is important , I wonder if you would take the trouble to write to me again , indicating particularly whether such other arrangements as you will be making are likely to commence at an earlier date than one might otherwise suppose . |
| 18 | However , atherosclerosis appears to be more extensive and to develop at an earlier age in diabetic patients ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 19 | Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes . |
| 20 | He points out that most certified trainees come straight from school and so are cheaper to employ in the earlier stages of their qualification when they are of less use . |
| 21 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 22 | To return to an earlier point , while an autorotation landing can be used as a method of safely landing a model which has a dead engine , or some other problem , it does need practice . |
| 23 | This first attempt to include the notion that the aim of some instincts seems to be to return to an earlier stage of development , to inanimate matter , was based on his observations of war neuroses and on the compulsion to repeat earlier emotional relationships in the analytic situation . |
| 24 | It is useful to return to the earlier typology of hazards ( Fig. 10.1 ) and to stress the links that might be made between those working on natural hazards and those working in the socio-economic domains . |
| 25 | To return to the earlier days of the state , however , one must remark upon several other provisions of the Kanunname of Mehmed II if only to avoid giving the impression that , at least in these early days , the establishment of a hierarchy for the ulema meant that a scholar , once enmeshed in its toils , had no option but the long grind to the top of that particular profession . |
| 26 | This reflects the almost total concern with American abolitionism of some reformers as well as a liberalism about religious matters which regretted even the refusal to allow the unbeliever Joseph Barker to speak at the earlier Manchester conference . |