Example sentences of "have been an early " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , therefore , the fourteen-year rule applied to Syria as well as Egypt , then there may have been an earlier census in 8 BC , a date that is not too early for the birth of Jesus . |
| 2 | Professor Glanville Williams sees the reason for the extended rule to have been an early uncertainty as to the nature of a joint and several obligation : see Joint Obligations , p. 135 . |
| 3 | However , the galaxies would also have had some small sideways velocities , and this might have made it possible for there to have been an earlier contracting phase of the universe , in which the galaxies might have come very close together but somehow managed to avoid hitting each other . |
| 4 | This conflict led Marx , and especially Engels , to a disastrous attempt to combine both approaches by arguing that there really had been an early stage in human history which was a mirror image of capitalism . |
| 5 | Across in South Kensington the Troubadour had been an early target of Private Eye 's Andrew Osmond , due to its reputation as a ‘ CND stronghold ’ . |
| 6 | Chance had been an early casualty , running her hero into a full house of armed gnolls ( the result of a lucky throw by Offler ) and shortly afterwards Night has cashed his chips , pleading an appointment with Destiny . |
| 7 | The introduction of bells into all the steeples of Christendom had been an early factor in regularizing the habits of the people — their first lesson in working to the clock . |
| 8 | Probably there had been an earlier Atlantic which came to an end with the Caledonian orogeny , but this was the beginning of the ocean that we have today . |
| 9 | The row erupted after Clinton denounced the remarks of a black rap singer , Sister Souljah , who had been an earlier guest of the Rainbow Coalition . |