Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the early [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 2 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Even the SRHE/Leverhulme enquiry carried out during the early 1980s was arguably weakest on the curriculum , and although the Society has organized conferences on curricular issues ( most recently that on Education for the Professions ; Goodlad 1984 ) , it has not attempted to tackle the overall questions of what is taught and what ought to be taught . |
| 4 | The first is much larger : 444 interviews carried out in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills . |
| 6 | Blood-typing studies of ten European breeds carried out in the early 1980s showed that the genetic distance was closer between the South Devon and the yellow Gelbvieh of central Germany , or the South Devon and the Swiss Brown , than between the South Devon and the Hereford . |
| 7 | Also in deference to their preferences , the building was carried out in the Early English Gothic style , its structural brickwork being faced externally with Kentish ragstone dressed with Bath stone at corners and door and window openings . |
| 8 | FAMILY records in Scotland dating back to the early 1800s have played an important role in an international effort to learn more about an inherited form of breast and ovarian cancer . |
| 9 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 10 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 11 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 12 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |
| 13 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 14 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 15 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 16 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 17 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 18 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 19 | The family live near Hexham somewhere and they have connections going back to the early nineteenth century , ’ Constance said , quoting Miss Hatherby almost verbatim . |
| 20 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 21 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 22 | Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about , and the practice of , abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families . |
| 23 | As for the records being destroyed , it is true nothing now predates 1465 , but early records certainly existed up until the early seventeenth century . |
| 24 | Set up in the early 1960s , it was a three-year full-time course with four broad areas of specialization ; fine art , graphic design , three-dimensional design , and textiles/fashion . |
| 25 | John Diggins ' involvement with Tony Iommi began back in the early '70s when working with guitar builder John Birch on Tony 's original black guitar . |
| 26 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 27 | Historians who have reconstructed the context of his trip have generally concluded that , far from being a momentary aberration , the Montreal speech was the culmination of a policy that can be traced back to the early 1960s . |
| 28 | The BLR&DD 's involvement with user education goes back to the early 1970s when it was called the Office for Scientific and Technical Information ( OSTI ) but it was the BLR&DD 's establishment of the Review Committee of Education for Information Use in 1974 that marked its presence in the field . |
| 29 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 30 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |