Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] [coord] early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that remain in villages are the survivors of a larger number of such groupings which were much reduced by the policy of enclosing open fields which was pursued during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 2 | The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century . |
| 3 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 4 | Its weaving tradition can be traced back several millennia , and there are a number of pile carpets dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries still in existence today . |
| 5 | The idea of radical change in terms of a few basic ideas runs through many of the proposals for reform of Spanish government and society made in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as well as those produced by the age of the Enlightenment . |
| 6 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 7 | Put differently , and more provocatively , can the means of mass communication modelled on the 19th and early 20th century models of what a newspaper must , can , and should do , retain any validity today and in the future ? |
| 8 | The first is to be found in the structure of our law of restitution , as it developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries . |
| 9 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 10 | The planting of the woods above Halling continued into the 19th and early 20th century for woodcutters , as well as producing Bavins etc. for the lime and cement industry , planted young trees . |
| 11 | Cooke notes that this equation of incorporation with public service continued into the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , with the general theory of corporate form still dominated by ‘ the concept of the corporation as a public body , an institution created by specific act of Parliament or the Crown for purposes approved as being in the national interest ’ . |
| 12 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 13 | The framework for the investigation of ‘ sensory coding ’ was established in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when the business of explaining perception was transformed into the more specific project of correlating the physical properties of perceived objects and events with patterns of activity in the nervous system and the latter with the subjective properties of the experience : |