Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those most coveted by the early civilizations of Egypt and Sumer , notably lapis lazuli , had been drawn from remote sources since Predynastic times . |
| 2 | The old sadness of the pagan world , so poignantly depicted in the early chapters of Walter Pater 's Marius the Epicurean , had returned . |
| 3 | But M3 was not successfully targeted in the early Thatcher years . |
| 4 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 5 | The hygienics of Newman and his colleagues was highly differentiated from the early social medicine of Kay and Southwood Smith — in the organization of their discourse , their forms of social regulation and in the political and institutional conditions through which they were produced . |
| 6 | He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena . |
| 7 | THE pressures on the conductor Mark Wigglesworth seem considerable — his career constantly compared to the early days of Simon Rattle , and the rising star tag firmly attached to his travelling bag . |
| 8 | This was steady , if less marked in the early years of Japanese rule , but in the 1920s a large increase in the number of publication permits issued by the authorities occurred . |
| 9 | However , Dunlop 's win was somewhat overshadowed by the early accident to Jim Courtney from Crumlin who was in the lead on lap one when he crashed at Mathers Cross between Coleraine and Portrush . |
| 10 | Populations of many other fur-bearers — particularly the large , solitary and slow-breeding mustelids — were greatly reduced by the early 1900s . |
| 11 | There are self-evidently interests other than those of social concern in the spatial revitalisation of urban economic activity and there is no need to descend into a dogmatic public v. private sector debate on the efficiency of urban renewal to suggest that these interests stand to benefit when state intervention , so discredited in the early Thatcher years as creeping socialism , can be represented as a free market solution to urban crisis . |
| 12 | Over the past twenty years I have seen about a dozen performances of Hamlet , a play which was also constantly revived in the early seventeenth century . |
| 13 | It 's right back to the Stamp Acts which were so bitterly and rightly resisted in the early part of the 19th century . ’ |
| 14 | The habits and compromises of political life have not much changed since the early part of the last century . |
| 15 | The mill was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century , reverting by the mid-1850s to its original purpose , that of corn milling . |
| 16 | Below them came the jurisdiction of the thegns , apparently already organised by the early eleventh century in the districts that , as Norman lordships , were to form the later rapes . |
| 17 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 18 | The Abortion Pill is best used in the early weeks of a pregnancy — certainly in the first three months , although in some cases it can be used later . |
| 19 | The first Romanesque cathedral was then begun ( c. 1020 ) ( 350 ) and this was largely replaced in the early twelfth century by another , larger one . |
| 20 | The canal 's purpose was to link the Stroudwater Navigation with the Thames and thus provide an inland waterway from the Black Country to London via the Severn , but it was never a commercial success and was finally abandoned in the early years of the present century . |
| 21 | The function was most enjoyable and we were richly entertained into the early hours by local musicians and some of our own most talented members . |
| 22 | An insight into the workings of the learned profession of a kind all too rarely offered by the early sources is to be found in an anecdote concerning the appointment of Kemalpasazade to his first post . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 24 | Their plight was gradually recognized during the early 20th century ; from the mid-century onward it has been the role of administrators , teachers , health workers , economists and lawyers to unravel some of their problems and provide alternative means of living . |
| 25 | Thus ‘ size ’ is partly dependent on shape , a fact which was gradually recognized during the early years of the present century . |
| 26 | This pattern became further exaggerated in the early 1970s when the cores lost population even more rapidly . |
| 27 | Thoroughly taken aback by the superb élan of the French attack coming at them with steel glinting grey in the snowy twilight , and further unnerved by the early death of their commander , the German force now fell back . |
| 28 | Such societies have increased in number and diversity , as the numbers of scientists have increased , and their meetings are still used for the early communication of research results . |
| 29 | This disposition became more complicated in the early sixteenth century . |
| 30 | This may be because of the presence of gall stones , as gall bladder bile is more concentrated in the early stage of cholesterol gall stone formation but becomes diluted depending upon the severity of cholecystitis . |