Example sentences of "early [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Paul ( d. 1666 ) , Particular Baptist and preacher , variously described as a tailor and a surgeon , first appears in the early 1640s as a member of the London separatist congregation of John Spencer and John Green . |
| 2 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 3 | There was a temporary decrease in the early 1970s as a reaction against Vietnam and the eventual withdrawal from armed conflict . |
| 4 | It is a promotional leaflet from some early tour-Gittel-plus-eight as the singer with Cy ‘ Silvertones ’ and the band , before she paused for motherhood and he decided that wedding and bar mitzvah bookings put more bread on the family table than life on the road . |
| 5 | A view of Central from platform level in the early 50's as a class N5 draws to a stand by the signal box . |
| 6 | That the South American mammals might have gone extinct in the early Pleistocene as a consequence of competition from the North American invaders has already been noted , though we should take due account of the caveats of Marshall ( 1981 ) . |
| 7 | A zealous though conformist Puritan , Scott acquired a reputation in the early 1620s as an opponent of the city leaders and as a critic of royal policy . |
| 8 | Worse still , of course , is the prospect of recording progress within ‘ the Record of Achievement ’ which all schools , at least at the secondary level , are likely to have by the early 1990s as a result of government policy and local initiative . |
| 9 | Revised estimates drawn up by the government and central bank towards the end of 1989 showed the country 's economic situation to be worse than previously thought , with a current-account deficit of dollars 2,029 million for 1988 , although the situation was expected to improve in the early 1990s as a result of increased oil revenues . |
| 10 | Thus the Communists and the Nazis had a common interest in the destruction of the Social Democrats and this fact was frequently referred to by the Labour Party and the TUC in the early 1930s as a reason for opposing both movements with equal vigour . |
| 11 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 12 | The eventual product of their lengthy discussions was the strongly Presbyterian Directory of Public Worship , which was accepted by parliament in early 1645 as a blueprint for the new ecclesiastical establishment . |
| 13 | Why , one might ask in reply , did Anderson never develop stories that engaged with just these issues , even when Joseph Losey , an American who came to Britain in the early 1950s as a refugee from the communist witch-hunts , could deal with them in an assignment for Hammer . |
| 14 | Mainly regarded as a victim of McCarthyism amongst his London associates , he had , in reality , spent much of the early 1950s as a nark for the House UnAmerican Activities Committee . |
| 15 | After the first round of hanging reforms some forty years earlier , capital statutes were greatly reduced in number by the legislative changes of the early 1860s as a result of which the only common crime punishable by the death penalty became murder . |
| 16 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 17 | Pandas in the area were threatened with extinction in the early 1980s as a result of the failure of the local arrow bamboo . |