Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] early [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with earlier ideas of colonisation of the landscape , it was assumed that original churches had been supplemented with additional chapels of ease as needed . |
| 2 | A tradition passed down by early historians of the Dominican Order would make Alexander already a teacher of theology at Toulouse in 1215 , when his lectures were attended by the order 's founder , St Dominic . |
| 3 | In 1859 , when the Origin of Species had come out , the evidence from fossils was suggestive but very incomplete : geologists had sought to characterize strata by their fossils rather than to follow family trees through from early times to the present . |
| 4 | He also points out , in passing , that various questions of the sort which have cropped up in earlier chapters of this book , such as whether matter can think , and how it produces mental sensations , ‘ are entirely banished from philosophy ’ by the adoption of immaterialism . |
| 5 | Early air travellers often flew for adventure , not just speed , and some travellers today , who do not have to cram a two-week break into a busy year , have gone back to earlier forms of transport which give them a far sharper sense of going places . |
| 6 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 7 | Just when the struggle is most important , my intervention may draw pupils back to earlier parts of their investigation , perhaps even exposing unsuspected or overlooked difficulties , and leave them feeling that they are getting nowhere . |
| 8 | Yet , it often happens that these variables are socially salient and important for historical projection on to earlier states of language . |