Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] earlier in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlson was aware of conflicting reports : that Bourbollon had been assassinated earlier in the day ; that he had committed suicide rather than face capture by freedom fighters . |
| 2 | The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing . |
| 3 | The law governing corners had been amended earlier in the year to allow such goals . |
| 4 | If it be conceded that the need for legal advice arises from the existence of a legal problem , the difficulties in meeting that need would appear to have been exposed earlier in the chapter . |
| 5 | The dining area was the same canopy beneath which they had been interviewed earlier in the day , only now the matting was covered with carpets , some of them very fine , and an inverted ‘ U ’ of low square tables of some dark wood had been set out . |
| 6 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 7 | As far as anyone could make out none of the hostages whose lives had been threatened earlier in the year had actually been harmed , but the stream of communiqués from the groups had dried up . |
| 8 | And the party was all the better for not being spoiled by a strike by lecturers which had been threatened earlier in the week . |
| 9 | There were a number of reasons for this , some of which have been uncovered earlier in the book : |
| 10 | This means that little material is of any use after the late afternoon and all the background material will have been written earlier in the day or the day before . |
| 11 | Some 50 of these had been ignited earlier in the war in an apparent attempt to use smoke to disrupt the allied air campaign . |
| 12 | One day I went to the swimming pool which had been closed earlier in the year after a near miss by a Tomahawk missile . |
| 13 | The issue of abortion had been raised earlier in the month when , on June 23 , Bush vetoed legislation which would have lifted the federal ban on funding medical research which used tissue from abortions . |
| 14 | The development of classical electromagnetic theory would have been much impaired if the action at a distance approach had been abandoned earlier in the century because of the superior progress of the field programme . |
| 15 | The Federal Constitutional Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ) , ruling on Oct. 12 , 1989 , against allowing foreigners with long-term residence to vote in local elections , ordered Schleswig-Holstein to drop plans for such legislation which had been introduced earlier in the year [ see p. 36531 ] . |
| 16 | Sancito Caro Brito [ named as Coco Brito on p. 37708 ] ; Jacqueline Mercedes Malagón was later appointed Education Minister in place of Pedro Gil Iturbes , who had been appointed earlier in the year but had resigned after Belaguer publicly accused him of jeopardizing an agreement between the government and the teachers ' association . |
| 17 | In addition banks will also hold a set of liquid assets in the form of Treasury bills , various types of bills of exchange , LA bills etc. , as has already been described earlier in the chapter . |
| 18 | A questionnaire had been circulated earlier in the year , and from that the steering committee had outlined ‘ valuable feedback ’ , indicating the sort of programme of events the branch needed . |
| 19 | The People 's National Party ( PNP ) government on Sept. 25 had reimposed value added tax ( VAT ) on fuel which had been suspended earlier in the year . |
| 20 | The pension arrangements of miners had been changed earlier in the year : instead of receiving a set pension , retired miners were to be paid pensions based on their average earnings in any five of their last ten years at work . |