Example sentences of "earlier [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 2 | A good part of the difficulty is derived directly from the structure of social and cultural values discussed earlier in this book . |
| 3 | An awareness of politics grows out of individuals ' perception of the world around them , and earlier in this book some of the main contributing factors to an African perception of the world , notwithstanding Africa 's great diversity , were sketched . |
| 4 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton . |
| 7 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , Jacques had been much encouraged by the attitude of the Hertfordshire LEA and the negotiated increased grant-aid for classes and courses . |
| 8 | There are tricky design and methodological issues which would need to be worked out , as foreshadowed earlier in this paper and by no means fully resolved in the preliminary study . |
| 9 | Earlier in this chapter the three key elements of rational approaches were identified as : relating expenditure of funds to fulfilling organisational objectives , a zero-based approach to choice and decision making and a multi-year time horizon for budgetary decision making . |
| 10 | In order to work this process requires leadership in the terms discussed earlier in this chapter ; it also requires ‘ open ’ management expressed through consultative procedures , effective delegation and a climate conducive to review , target setting , monitoring and evaluation . |
| 11 | These modem developments contrast with the situation earlier in this century when for example there was no bridge between Benbecula and North and South Uist , and crossings had to be made across the beach at low tide . |
| 12 | The problems of associating the different organs of the same fossil plant species were mentioned earlier in this book ( p. 23 ) . . |
| 13 | And , as we have seen , there is plentiful evidence from a variety of experimental procedures to encourage the conclusion that this prediction is well founded , The theories of latent inhibition that I considered earlier in this chapter ( e.g. that proposed by Wagner ) were concerned with phenomena that suggested that latent inhibition depends upon how well the target stimulus is predicted by its antecedents . |
| 14 | The suggestion offered earlier in this chapter was that pre-exposure to a stimulus , as well as allowing certain associations to be formed , might also result in a loss of associability . |
| 15 | All the forms of training used in the experiments described earlier in this chapter will produce stimulus differentiation . |
| 16 | Standardisation of note-taking is advantageous using the fault identification technique described earlier in this chapter . |
| 17 | Mopping as described earlier in this chapter . |
| 18 | Fast technique has already been covered earlier in this chapter . |
| 19 | A mountain zone ( areas such as the Scottish Highlands , the core of the Lake District and northern Snowdonia ) where HLCAs should be increased to the Directive 's maximum rates ( subject to the livestock numbers per farm limit recommended earlier in this chapter . |
| 20 | A modified HLCA system which would reduce the upland agriculture/ conservation conflict has been detailed earlier in this chapter . |
| 21 | Relaxation of the eligibility criteria for development plans , proposals for farm afforestation and improved management of existing farm woodland , slight modifications to the HLCA system , pilot demonstration schemes , and joint investment schemes for various purposes , are all components of the proposed Regulation discussed earlier in this chapter , and assessed in relation to their likely impact for nature conservation . |
| 22 | As stated earlier in this chapter , the main Ipswich problem was the very limited availability of home helps , meals-on-wheels and day care facilities . |
| 23 | As far as recruitment is concerned the preliminary quests as described earlier in this chapter appeared to work well for Ipswich but not for Newham . |
| 24 | Earlier in this chapter we described the rate of referral of cases to the development officers , and Table 3. 1 shows the size of their case load month by month . |
| 25 | In Ipswich in particular — as stated earlier in this chapter — the development officer expressed a certain amount of frustration over institutionalised clients . |
| 26 | As outlined earlier in this section , an alternative form of analysis can be adopted in the light of the probability that the action and control samples were imperfectly matched . |
| 27 | The important platelet mitogen , platelet-derived growth factor which is an α-granule constituent along with β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 has been discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 28 | Earlier in this chapter ( p. 70 ) striking a realistic balance between protection and freedom was discussed in the context of preventing accidents in relation to children . |
| 29 | This procedure , called reroughing ( or sometimes twicing ) takes further the idea of iterating that we met earlier in this chapter . |
| 30 | The term ‘ indiction ’ has been used earlier in this chapter , and although the system is unlikely to be encountered in isolation by a local historian it is worth recording , if only for the sake of completeness . |