Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] early [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One should always bear in mind that he never went back on his sympathy for the early stages of the Revolution , and his statement in 1821 , at the height of his Toryism , when he was accused of deserting France , has its own indestructible logic : ‘ You have been deluded by places and persons , while I have stuck to principles .
2 The responsibilities of the two departments were to be as follows : the education authorities who operated a service under the 1910 Act had to confine themselves to ‘ interviewing , advising , registering and selecting juvenile applicants ’ , while the labour exchanges would ‘ register vacancies , place juveniles with employers and oversee their progress during the early years of employment ’ .
3 With each group possessing its own goals , vision of the war 's purpose and views as to how it should be fought , ‘ Republican ’ unity during the early months of the war was agonizingly difficult to achieve .
4 Pugh feels that Hunter 's responsibility for the early affairs of the College has been overrated .
5 Apart from odd skirmishes between small reconnoitring groups in the west during the early months of the war , there were three main incidents in the county .
6 CASH , and a Sanyo music centre , were stolen in a burglary during the early hours of Sunday morning at Birch Close , Bordon .
7 Also during this day as He111P bomber of 5/KG 4 , one of several units passing through Sicily following action during the early stages of the Balkan Campaign , force-landed in the sea after a raid on Valetta .
8 One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected .
9 Sitting is a relatively straightforward command to teach , and because it is such an important part of many other routines you should concentrate on this command during the early stages of training .
10 Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons ; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule .
11 Language Development of school-age children : — some study of the early stages of language acquisition should be undertaken ; collection and analysis of data ; social and psychological factors ; language in the educational process ; initial and later literacy .
12 As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced .
13 Anxiety about in-law relationships , and evidence that some considerable adjustment can be necessary , is found also in Mansfield and Collard 's ( 1988 ) study of the early years of marriage .
14 The film , a polished study of the early days of Lucky Luciano and his fellow hoodlums , is not so much The Godfather as The Godchild , as Christian Slater — looking as if he has n't started shaving yet — sets out with three cherubic buddies to conquer New York 's Lower East Side .
15 Its beginnings partly account for the novel 's loose picaresque form , recounting a series of adventures of Mr Pickwick and his friends ( Snodgrass , Winkle , and Tupman ) , although the initiation of Mrs Bardell 's breach-of-promise action provides a continuing plot-interest , and Mr Pickwick is transformed from the conventional comic figure of the early chapters by his connection with Sam Weller .
16 One afternoon the Governor summoned me to Government House and informed me that he had instructions to institute proceedings against Aung San for an alleged murder in the early days of the Japanese invasion of Burma , and instructed me to prepare the case to justify this to the country .
17 It was here , on his way back from a night club in the early hours of the morning , that he was attacked by a man with a broken bottle .
18 The youths collapsed inside the club in the early hours of Saturday .
19 He felt the same surge of excitement , the same strong sexual awareness , he had felt when he had first held this sepia photograph in the early days of the summer .
20 The next time you hear a noisy 747 thundering over your roof in the early hours of the morning — you can smile and sleep well in the knowledge that the airline have just been fined one third of a landing fee , approximately £1,300 !
21 The man , of no fixed address , was found collapsed in his cell in the early hours of yesterday .
22 There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker .
23 He proposed a ‘ Moran training camp ’ which would ‘ supplement the indigenous system with more direct educative purpose , introducing some of our ideas on personal training and discipline to ensure bringing the young men of the tribe to hand under our guidance in the early stages of their Moranhood ’ .
24 The minutes and the printed annual accounts of the directors throw further light on the activities at the House of Industry in the early years of the nineteenth century .
25 A headline in the early weeks of 1991 referred to a 20% failure rate in reading skills ; an alternative , and preferable , line would have been an 80% success rate and a reminder of the conclusion of the Warnock Committee that , at any one time , 18% of the school population has special educational needs .
26 Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines .
27 At the height of the violence in the early hours of the morning at Wymott jail in Leyland , Lancashire , about 400 rioters had seized control and were smashing up the jail .
28 It also supposes that vigorous enough action in the early stages of the civil rights movement would have nipped it in the bud and restored Northern Ireland to stability .
29 It was feared that Arafat was so desperate to achieve diplomatic action in the early months of the Uprising that he might betray its purpose by a renewal of the PLO Jordanian alliance .
30 Vandals smashed the glass front door of Jaze hairdressers in Yarm Road , Darlington , with a rock in the early hours of yesterday .
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