Example sentences of "early as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akeman Street was the boundary between what is now Tackley Park and Whitehill Farm as early as the year 1004 when King Ethelred gave the small estate of Whitehill to St Frideswide 's monastery at Oxford , and it is still a boundary though the Roman road has vanished from sight . |
| 2 | xxxiii ) , but may have contracted an advantageous political marriage as early as the year 440 . |
| 3 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |
| 4 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 5 | As early as the beginning of the century , wealth in the county was reckoned in monetary terms ; the implication that coins circulated freely was borne out when the Fécamp treasure was discovered in 1954 . |
| 6 | Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty . |
| 7 | If the Romans had followed the Etruscan path , Heraclides Ponticus would not have called Rome a Greek city , a polis hellenis , as early as the middle of the fourth century B.C. ( Plut . |
| 8 | As early as the middle of the fifteenth century , as part of a political deal with the King of Congo , the Portuguese actually managed to ordain a black African bishop . |
| 9 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 10 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 11 | This possibility is outlined by Foucault himself as early as The Order of Things . |
| 12 | The first sign of the present pattern of occurrence is detectable as early as the winter of 1953/54 , but an increase has been most marked since the winter of 1961/62 . |
| 13 | As early as the time of Saul the festival of the new moon was celebrated with great solemnity . |
| 14 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 15 | For this they were peculiarly well suited by reason of their durability , portability , uniformity and ease of recognition ; Cowries probably came into use as currency as early as the Shang dynasty . |
| 16 | Traffic was passing that way as early as the Shang dynasty and under the Han the silk route was crucial enough to be incorporated in the Empire . |
| 17 | Tomb finds suggest that this quality was appreciated as early as the Shang dynasty . |
| 18 | The deposit of a variety of jade amulets for ensuring good fortune and warding off ill-luck among Fu Hao 's grave goods shows that jade had already begun to be directed to individual needs as early as the Shang dynasty , at least for one at the peak of the social system . |
| 19 | Although the personal concerns of rulers and their consorts began to find reflection in the jade record as early as the Shang dynasty , in general state affairs were dominant at this time . |
| 20 | The tsar 's brother , the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , spoke of the desirability of emancipating the serfs as early as the spring of 1855 . |
| 21 | Athens raised Potidaia 's tribute from six to fifteen talents as early as the period 438–434 , which means that she was pressurizing Potidaia ( ‘ encroaching ’ on allies of the Peloponnesians ) much earlier than Thucydides implies . |
| 22 | In fact , closed crowns had been employed in the fifteenth century , as early as the coronation of Henry IV , but not so regularly that the historian can assume that there was any conscious policy behind the practice . |
| 23 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 24 | Many professionals wish they had been given more detailed and honest feedback far sooner , perhaps as early as the SSI/RHA 's initial monitoring . |
| 25 | He claims that he was a little pedant , even as early as the age of five . |
| 26 | As early as the autumn of 1953 the US National Security Council was coming to accept that the situation in Eastern Europe was unlikely to change in the foreseeable future . |
| 27 | As early as the midsummer of 1992 , the Morgensavisen Jyllands Posten had put the anti-Maastricht vote at over 60 per cent . |
| 28 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 29 | De Selincourt , the editor of The Prelude , dates this phase as early as the end of 1794 ; after this time Wordsworth sought refuge in philosophy ( see Godwin , p. 77 ) and had to be virtually nursed back to mental and moral stability by Dorothy amid rural surroundings . |
| 30 | The idea had been put forward as early as the end of the Second World War , when E. M. W. Tillyard had advocated a new relief university for Oxford and Cambridge at Stamford . |