Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in the early " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks . |
| 2 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 3 | A cynic among us suggested the people were brought out in the early morning for the tourists to snap their unlikely habitat . |
| 4 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 5 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 6 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 7 | Attacks on the Beira corridor pipeline to Zimbabwe were stepped up in the early weeks of 1990 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s . |
| 10 | The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington . |
| 11 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |