Example sentences of "early [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Officials underwent no formal education in the eighteenth century , and in the early nineteenth the level of education in the provincial offices remained very low .
2 By the early thirties a stage often called ‘ career launch ’ arrives .
3 Nor would we have a public image that clearly conveys the mixed nature of the organization : in early 1986 the name changed to Lesbian and Gay Switchboard which confirmed our status .
4 In early 1986 the government took its concern to influence the financing of local government a stage further .
5 By early 1986 the land war was , if anything , going Iran 's way .
6 In early 1986 the Research and Statistics branch of the Inner London Education Authority presented a study which had taken three and a half years to compile , based upon the schoolwork of 2000 pupils in 50 randomly selected primary schools .
7 By the early 1890s the NVA had begun to pass on evidence of cases to the Home Office , complaining of the difficulties of prosecuting under existing legislation .
8 By the early 1890s the view was widespread that Japan 's own security could not afford a weak , Chinese-dominated Korea , which could offer no barrier to Russian advance .
9 When they first appear in the early Ordovician the majority of nautiloid shells are straight or slightly curved ; they are ‘ unwound ’ forms .
10 During the early 1900s the post office at Lowthorpe was a hive or activity .
11 In the early 1900s the initiative was with those lower down in the governing hierarchy than Lugard , and being the men they were , they took it .
12 By early 1963 the stage for Doctor Who was set .
13 In the early 70s the theme of most shows concentrated on ‘ live displays ’ which meant taking cattle , pigs and poultry around the country .
14 By the early 1790s the argument was conducted in an atmosphere in which projects for reform were presented by their enemies as tantamount to a threat to stability and the preservation of civilised life in Britain .
15 During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them .
16 By the early seventies the firm was employing over 1,000 operatives covering every aspect of building works .
17 In the early seventies the court ( and the bazaar ) buzzed with stories that the Shah had fallen in love , not with a European but with a nineteen-year-old Iranian girl with dyed blond hair .
18 But in the early seventies the cost of imported raw materials accelerated rapidly ( chapter 12 ) .
19 Now , for the first time since the early Seventies the left has no power to tether the leadership on anything significant .
20 In early 1917 the number of strikes in the capital rose and there was a series of demonstrations , notably on 9 January , the anniversary of Bloody Sunday , and 14 February , the day the Duma reconvened .
21 By the early 1970's the hobby had taken off .
22 Since the early 1970s a variety of child abuse inquiries and DHSS circulars have emphasized that the establishment of child abuse registers , case conferences and increased inter-professional co-ordination will enhance the central aims of attempting to predict , prevent and identify the children who may be in actual or potential danger of child abuse .
23 In the late 1960s and early 1970s a reform movement spread , dissatisfied with the apparent arbitrariness of traditional forms of budget allocation .
24 Between 1950 and the early 1970s the sector grew by just under 10 per cent and the increase was mainly made up of financial and commercial services .
25 In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods .
26 From the early 1970s the idea of revivalism in consumption and aesthetic theory had become rampant , as people started to buy things for their ‘ kitsch ’ value or their references — note the Deco dream world of Biba 's store in Kensington High Street as the high water mark of this style in the United Kingdom .
27 Moreover , as has been noted , by the early 1970s the structure of British industry was similar to that of the EEC countries as measured by the proportionate distribution of employment .
28 In the early 1970s the concern was with the enormous increase in planning applications and planning appeals .
29 From the 1940s till the early 1970s the question asked was ‘ does social work work ? ’ , and the answers given , for example by Mullen and Dumpson ( 1972 ) , Fischer ( 1973 and 1976 ) , and Wood ( 1978 ) , were generally negative : social work intervention was apparently ineffective .
30 Between 1960 and the early 1970s the share of manufacturing industry in employment in Britain decreased and the total labour force itself declined from the mid 1960s .
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