Example sentences of "[verb] earlier [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that while it would be a gross aesthetic blunder to introduce music of more classical times ( from the Baroque onwards ) into contemporary music , one can introduce earlier music quite successfully . |
| 2 | Estonian President Lennart Meri said that the suspension contradicted earlier agreements , and he called for the issue to be discussed by the foreign ministers of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) at their forthcoming meeting in Sweden . |
| 3 | There is nothing exceptional in this : it merely reinforces earlier Library Association statements on the responsibilities of the professional librarian with regard to censorship . |
| 4 | This mass of paper is the most obvious difference between the problems facing the recent historian and those facing his colleague who studies earlier periods . |
| 5 | St. Peter 's Church dates from 1160 but has earlier Saxon origins . |
| 6 | The report dismissed earlier suggestions of a deliberate cover-up by civil servants or government ministers [ see p. 38788 ] . |
| 7 | The ANC and its allies modified earlier demands for a two-thirds majority , proposing a 70 per cent majority for most decisions but conceding a higher majority , of 75 per cent , for a bill of rights . |
| 8 | If title-page and the information on the reverse agree as to date , and there is nothing to indicate earlier editions , then you may well have a ‘ first ’ . |
| 9 | It may be noted that these acts were replaced by the Supreme Court of judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 , which has itself now been replaced by the Supreme Court Act 1981 and by certain provisions in the Limitation Act 1980 ( consolidating earlier Limitation Acts ) . |
| 10 | Having considered earlier authorities he said , at p. 270 : |
| 11 | Many of the techniques listed earlier help identify these patterns . |
| 12 | Under the BEFIEX system , set up in 1972 to consolidate earlier policies , firms promising to export a set portion of their production were allowed to bypass the ‘ Law of Similars ’ and also get soft loans for financing exports . |
| 13 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 14 | You mentioned earlier walking in one tempo and singing in another . |
| 15 | Erm I mentioned earlier chains on the bottom of the louvres . |
| 16 | But we know that that pain and suffering could have been avoided had you accepted earlier advice . |
| 17 | He continued to develop , correcting earlier errors . |
| 18 | She explores the idea of the world as God 's body , an idea which received earlier treatment by Grace Jantzen in her God 's World , God ‘ s Body . |
| 19 | Furthermore , experimental data suggest that the human speech processing mechanism also makes use of later occurring information in analyzing earlier parts of sentences ( e.g. Pollack & Pickett 1963 ; Warren & Warren 1970 ; Nakatani & Dukes 1977 ) . |
| 20 | The House of Lords in Wilson [ 1984 ] AC 242 overturned earlier authorities which held that " inflict " in s.20 required an assault . |
| 21 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
| 22 | The ‘ possible worlds ’ which had interested earlier thinkers now seemed realized in other societies , as history and anthropology became developed ; but in contrast to human societies , nature seemed fixed and uncompromising . |
| 23 | One happy way of making a series is by reprinting earlier works in a standardised format . |
| 24 | The results support earlier findings with older hemispherectomy patients and are consistent with models of subcortical control of visual orienting in normal newborns . |
| 25 | It was later found to be useful to set up separate databases for each functional group , which prevented earlier versions of the full database being corrupted as experiments in sorting and producing reports were carried out . |
| 26 | The next Bishop of Rochester to reside here at Halling was Laurence but this is not to say that the palace was vacant during these intervening years for as we have noticed earlier monks of Rochester lived here for periods with possibly a steward to maintain the household . |
| 27 | The High Court has upheld earlier decisions that an appeal was not within its jurisdiction if it was not transmitted to the High Court within 30 days of the appellant 's receipt of the Special Commissioner 's statement of the case ( p 101 ) . |
| 28 | Two days later , according to the Anonimalle Chronicle , the commons assembled in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey , and a knight from the south country opened the debate on the subsidy with an attack on the government for misspending earlier subsidies . |
| 29 | Many of these are mentioned in chapter 8 ( p. 173 ) but a particularly important viewpoint offered by Strahler in 1956 , provided fundamental guidelines which acknowledged earlier work by engineers , hydrologists , soil scientists and geologists and proceeded to formulate an improved understanding of fluvially produced landscapes . |
| 30 | Peltier ( p. 222 ) acknowledged earlier ideas when discussing the distinction of morphogenetic regions : |