Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the early [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole of the property had been destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 , and the land occupied by the three houses in Foster Lane was either soon after or by the early nineteenth century incorporated in the Goldsmiths ' Hall . |
| 2 | In Britain , successive revisions of the grant system had not brought financial stability and during the early 1970s BR showed major losses even after payment of the grant . |
| 3 | An insistence on international support and co-operation had been a central feature of missionary Calvinism from its inception , and during the early seventeenth century it was regarded as essential to the survival of the Reformed faith in the face of the threat from a resurgent counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
| 4 | This then was the Wolverton Royal Train of the later years of the LMSR and of the early British Rail period . |
| 5 | The need for further study of this confused period is clearly indicated , but the statements of Ibn Hajar ( and al-Makrizi ) and of the earliest chronological list and the document indicating Molla Fenari 's presence in Karaman in Jumada II 819/August 1416 provide at the least a consistent basis for explaining the reason for , and establishing the date of , Molla Fenari 's return ; and it may therefore be tentatively concluded that Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands some time in , or shortly alter , Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 . |
| 6 | It is possible both versions may have circulated as productions in Marlowe 's own time , as well as in the later 1590s and throughout the early seventeenth century . |
| 7 | For all of these reasons , and unlike the earlier biblical period , only men were allowed to perform the operation ( see Kidd . |
| 8 | Word went round in the seventh century that St James the Apostle had visited Spain , and in the early ninth century a bishop of Padron discovered what he took to be his body . |
| 9 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 10 | Instead , the idea of a continuum emerged ( Pahl , 1 966b ) based on the degree of urbanization experienced in an area and in the early 1970s Rogers and Burdge ( 1972 ) produced the continuum which is shown below and which depends upon population size , population density and the degree to which the community members observe rural or urban norms . |
| 11 | Castro 's material aid to groups embracing guerrilla warfare was effectively halted after the death of Che Guevara in 1967 , polemic with the Soviet Union died down , and in the early 1970s Havana launched a successful diplomatic initiative to establish its own ties with Latin American governments . |
| 12 | Arriving in this country they established themselves as farmers and in the early 19th century they farmed at Allington Castle and then travelled through various parts of England as farmers until arriving back in Kent . |
| 13 | All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny . |
| 14 | Winning customers became a priority and in the early 1980s banks began tailoring accounts to meet the needs of certain sections of the population . |
| 15 | ‘ A failure to inform a citizen in writing and at the earliest practicable moment of precisely why he is being deprived of his liberty constitutes a fundamental breach of his rights and , where that failure is never remedied , as was the case here … |
| 16 | In Clarke v. Clarke [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 115 , 119 Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. said : ‘ A failure to inform a citizen in writing and at the earliest practicable moment of precisely why he is being deprived of his liberty constitutes a fundamental breach of his rights and , where that failure is never remedied [ the committal order ] can not stand . ’ |
| 17 | One of the main problems here was lack of water for washing the ore , and by the early nineteenth century the Duke of Devonshire , who owned the workings , had built a watercourse and an underground drainage channel to allow deeper shafts to be sunk . |
| 18 | Despite this , it became a mecca for craftsmen and merchants , and by the early nineteenth century , the domination of Zurich had been thrown off . |
| 19 | There was slow development in the seventeenth century , and by the early eighteenth century decay was evident , despite the designation of the town as a centre of an administrative district ( uezd ) of Tobolsk Province . |
| 20 | Even then , however , the great majority of successful commanders were of noble origin ; and by the early eighteenth century it was becoming increasingly difficult in many countries for a commoner to acquire commissioned rank in any but the more technical branches of the service , and almost impossible for him to rise to high rank . |
| 21 | From the 1640s onwards one of the functions of the Habsburg representatives in the Turkish capital was to oversee their training ; and by the early eighteenth century a number of these representatives were themselves former Sprachknabe . |
| 22 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |
| 23 | A papal Secretaria Apostolica in Rome for carrying on official correspondence had its functions defined by Pope Innocent VIII in 1487 ; and by the early sixteenth century a quite extensive and well-organised papal secretariat concerned largely with relations with the secular states of Europe had developed . |
| 24 | The Northmen ( Norsemen ) settled here and by the early tenth century were converted to Christianity and began to build churches . |
| 25 | But during the early Cubist period , when the pictures were unsigned and undated , and when the wealth of discovery and invention makes differences of months and even of weeks important , it is extremely difficult to establish an exact chronological sequence . |
| 26 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
| 27 | But in the early sixties Iran 's agriculture was still dominated by vast states owned by rich private landlords and by muslim clerics . |
| 28 | Dickens ' reading of the English Reformation held sway for nearly two decades , but in the early 1980s Christopher Haigh and Jack Scarisbrick began to challenge and revise his interpretation of events . |
| 29 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |
| 30 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |