Example sentences of "were [verb] in the early " in BNC.

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1 Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen .
2 On the home front the major Little Britain project for Wimpey Property Holdings and the Criterion project at Piccadilly Circus were completed in the early part of the year , with the £7 million Astra Pharmaceuticals Project at Corby , Northants handed over at the year end .
3 Armed with this tool for diagnosing asymptomatic carriers of the infection and those who had been infected in the past , several screening studies were undertaken in the early seventies , and to many people 's surprise the incidence of past and present infection was found to be very high amongst those attending departments of venereology or genito-urinary medicine .
4 But there might be very much smaller black holes , which were formed in the early universe .
5 Share issues were subdued in the early 1980s but rose strongly after that as the market improved .
6 The bulletins used for the Zambian languages were prepared in the early morning , because ZBS staff required time for translation .
7 Both churches were built in the early twelfth century and can be approached from two directions .
8 Modules were built in the early 1980s in much the same way as they had been in the late 1960s , with little technical or organizational change .
9 Hereford were outplayed in the early stages until Derek Hall sent a long ball upfield …
10 The great bronze doors of the central doorway , which lead from the narthex into the cathedral , were made in the early twelfth century and are decorated in silver .
11 These flats were demolished in the early 1980s and the history of the use of the site is an important part of this study 's concern with land .
12 Next month , we shall look at some more regiments , the senior components of which were raised in the early eighteenth century .
13 Even before the 1867 premiere of his most sublime opera , Verdi made extensive cuts which were rediscovered in the early 1970s and restored by Andrew Porter , whose English translation is being used here .
14 Thousands of his negatives were rediscovered in the early 1960s , and a selection of over 200 of his photographs is being exhibited at London 's Barbican Centre between May 28th and June 25th .
15 In the United States , Health Management Organisations were introduced in the early 1970s to hold down the formidable costs of American medicine by encouraging more competition between providers .
16 The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s .
17 Military-trained rapid strike units , known as Headquarters Mobile Support Units and Divisional Mobile Support Units , were introduced in the early 1980s .
18 Twelve hostages , including journalists from Reuters and the New York Times , were seized in the early hours yesterday , before being released by pro-Noriega armed civilians , who urged them to ‘ tell the story of the American invasion ’ .
19 Crèches were abandoned in the early twentieth century partly for reasons of economy and partly as a result of the pressure exerted by the infant welfare movement on mothers to stay at home with their children .
20 The men , who are claiming damages for false imprisonment , assault and malicious prosecution , were arrested in the early hours of the morning by officers of the Operational Support Division .
21 These formulations were grounded in the early hydraulic model of the circulation of energy derived from fluid mechanics ; the body possessed only a fixed quantity of semen , once expended it was lost forever .
22 The church 's greatest denunciations were reserved in the early period for sexual immorality and the dangers to the people coming from modern society : from the cinema , literature , radio , and , above all , from dance-halls ( Whyte 1980 : 25–34 ) .
23 Other schemes were contemplated in the early 1980s .
24 It was through his partnership with Bertie Fisher that Meeke 's Opel connections were established in the early Eighties and when the Spanish arm of the operation needed assistance he was asked to take on a supervisory role .
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