Example sentences of "[verb] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one little bit of leftover , as you 've given me an opportunity before I depart , and that was that erm we did discuss earlier today , under this heading the possibilities of erm their being sites on the inner edge or between the built up area , or there might become sites between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , I think the implication was they may be in Ryedale . |
| 2 | ‘ Apparently she did n't know earlier . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's lovely to see you , Daddy , but why did n't you let me know earlier ? |
| 4 | As the hunt was called off last night detectives dismissed earlier claims the men could have been terrorists . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I expect it starts earlier on the Continent , ’ said Sister Dew happily . |
| 6 | A district with a high under 75 years standardised mortality ratio will tend to have people dying earlier than expected in the younger age groups , and applying national average rates of use of service to those groups will underestimate its relative need for health services . |
| 7 | Despite the considerable pressures on the churches at the central and top provincial levels in 1922 , sparse reverberations as yet reached that grass-roots base which was considered earlier . |
| 8 | Some results from the study upon army volunteers who stayed awake for 72 hours in constant conditions and ate regular meals were considered earlier ( Chapter 2 , fig. 2.1 ) . |
| 9 | The Cambridge Board was fully committed to its existing developments in the other counties , considered earlier in this chapter , and the LEA were averse to contributing to the salary of the tutor until the scheme had become firmly established in the county — a Catch 22 situation — and the scheme petered out in 1934 . |
| 10 | It could be argued that the propositions considered earlier as regards the patient so requesting would be applicable , since all that has changed is that the relevant legal decision-maker is the parent or guardian , so that the doctor would be absolved from his duty . |
| 11 | It is true that the cases of indirect wording and external interpretation considered earlier are cases in which the validity of a disposition rests on intention rather than form . |
| 12 | The regional differences in house prices have been considered earlier in this chapter ( and in Table 9.1 , column 6 ) . |
| 13 | In fact , however , it marks a major transition in the terms of the debate , and separates the concessive form of holism sharply from the absolute form considered earlier . |
| 14 | ( Beyond doubt that characterization lies behind the logico-linguistic criterion considered earlier . ) |
| 15 | Despite radical revision of the complaints procedures , there remains dissatisfaction about the handling of complaints similar to those concerning police complaints procedures considered earlier in this book ( Newbold and Zellick , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | Further , because the public interest is the root of corporate legitimacy demands for responsibility need not be confined to the avoidance of obvious forms of social harm , such as might result from pollution , dangerous products , or false advertising , but potentially embrace all exercises of social decision-making power by companies , the manifestations of which were considered earlier . |
| 17 | While this terminology may be ambiguous , it is however clear that the duty excludes the various managerialist objectives considered earlier , and hence to that extent is consistent with the general interest , as so far understood . |
| 18 | Finally , an objection to relying on the law to regulate decision-making quality , additional to those considered earlier , should be noted . |
| 19 | If there are also delays in the receipt of the proceeds from short selling shares ( considered earlier in this chapter ) , assuming f |
| 20 | As in the full employment models considered earlier , the direct impact may be more than offset by the indirect , general equilibrium , effects for example , if the demand response is biased towards capital-intensive industries . |
| 21 | The one I 'd considered earlier , but they refuse single people because they would rattle around on their own . |
| 22 | One type refers to the geographical location ( both absolute and relative ) of spatial entities ( the points , lines and polygons considered earlier in Chapter 2 ) and the other data type refers to the properties or attributes of such spatial entities , for example the height of a point such as a hill top , the width of a road ( line ) or the area of a State ( polygon ) Table 7.1 ) . |
| 23 | PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis . |
| 24 | Some of these clauses have been considered earlier in this chapter . |
| 25 | Interestingly , Ritchie ( 1985 ) proposes that massive sand-blowing and renewed machair formation on Pabbay began at about 4300 B.P. Machair development had been occurring earlier as a result of rising sea-level carrying glacially derived sand across the shallow , gentle off-shore shelf to create early machair beaches and dunes ( Ritchie , 1979 ; Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | But it would not be difficult to construct post hoc explanations for fertility decline occurring earlier in the nineteenth century as well . |
| 27 | Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse . |
| 28 | For the language teacher it provides powerful clues concerning the causes of the sensation of floundering in conversation to which we referred earlier . |
| 29 | An even bigger obstacle to the successful introduction of legislative guide-lines in this country might be the existence of a number of different tariff ranges according to the different levels of court , to which we referred earlier . |
| 30 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |