Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] as early [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collections for medical supplies were also undertaken and the first British Medical Unit of doctors and nurses , organized by the Spanish Medical Aid Committee , left for Spain as early as August 1936 . |
| 2 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
| 3 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 4 | There are references to such ‘ gonnes ’ in accounts of the siege of Berwick as early as 1333 , while it is likely that some form of artillery was brought across the sea by the English for the long siege of Calais of 1346–7 . |
| 5 | Those applicants wishing to make use of this agreement , details of which should be available from their current institutions , should contact the appropriate Faculty at the University of Edinburgh as early as possible . |
| 6 | With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation . |
| 7 | So we get Joseph Wright of Derby as early as 1780 painting Arkwright 's cotton mill by night — tiers of tiny yellow lights in the immemorial country darkness of the Derwent valley , the isolated forerunner of those tremendous galaxies of light that one now sees from the Pennine Moors after sundown . |
| 8 | A primary education system was established throughout Ireland as early as 1831 ( see Akenson 1970 ; Lyons 1973 ; Miller 1973 ) . |
| 9 | Sir Hugh Hastings of Fenwick seems to have been primarily Northumberland 's man , but his land in south Yorkshire had brought him into contact with Gloucester as early as 1471 , when the duke made him his deputy steward of Snaith , and to judge by his choice of feoffees Hastings maintained links with the duke 's circle . |
| 10 | Sir Hugh Hastings of Fenwick seems to have been primarily Northumberland 's man , but his land in south Yorkshire had brought him into contact with Gloucester as early as 1471 , when the duke made him his deputy steward of Snaith , and to judge by his choice of feoffees Hastings maintained links with the duke 's circle . |
| 11 | Indeed , cat bones have been found associated with human settlements such as Jericho as early as nine thousand years ago , but in those cases — until now — we could not be certain about their significance . |
| 12 | ‘ Sing we and chant it ’ is a true balletto , the opening of its second strain practically identical in every part with that of Gastoldi 's ‘ A lieta vita ’ ( which in Germany as early as 1598 was seized in toto and provided with sacred words , ‘ In dir ist Freude ’ ) yet , as Joseph Kerman has pointed out , more sophisticated in its sense of dominant contrast . |
| 13 | Jews settled in Czechoslovakia as early as the 10C , but it was not until the 13 and 14C that a small Jewish community became a feature of every large town . |
| 14 | With growing princely income and expenditure , the charge of the purse became more responsible ; chamberlains appeared everywhere — in Flanders as early as the tenth century — to control it . |
| 15 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 16 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 17 | This is not the earliest example in the county , for silk weaving took place in Gloucester as early as 1637 . |
| 18 | It was no coincidence that the first official title of the Free French movement 's executive — a title which de Gaulle had suggested to Churchill as early as July 1940 — was the Conseil de Défense de l'Empire . |
| 19 | Centres are advised to forward schemes to HCIMA as early as possible and to allow 10 weeks for the moderation process ( in order to allow for resubmissions ) . |
| 20 | Dean Rusk remarked to Johnson as early as 15 April 1965 , " We have had an excellent degree of understanding and cooperation in critical foreign policy matters from the new Labor Government in Britain . " |
| 21 | The sharp upturn indicates a great improvement in SCOTVEC 's ability to ‘ turn around ’ results ; it also indicates that more centres are returning results to SCOTVEC as early as possible . |
| 22 | That great convenience of Victorian house planning , the luggage entrance , was introduced for the first time at Dupplin as early as 1829 . |
| 23 | Records show there was a church at Sancton as early as 1086 . |
| 24 | His name is first found in the watermark of a postage stamp for Barbados as early as 1840 . |