Example sentences of "[be] early [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school .
2 ‘ I do remember one weekend , during the flu outbreak , must have been early April — yes , a girl in prolonged labour , we were all getting worried about her , she nearly lost her baby .
3 What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants .
4 These Hittites may have been early migrants from the Hittite Empire in Turkey ( founded about 1800 BC ) .
5 Patients in their study initially had no clinical or echocardiographic evidence of heart disease and they suggest that the QT interval abnormalities may have been early indicators of alcohol-induced myocardial toxicity .
6 His keyboard ricercari are early works ( 1567 ) , mostly ‘ instrumental motets ’ , but in his two books of toccatas ( 1598 and 1604 ) he developed further the alternation of quasi-improvisatory and ricercar-like passages and treated the material more plastically so that the two elements cohere instead of being sharply juxtaposed .
7 Their variety of style and organization is equally remarkable , and it is regrettable that — owing to the fact that merely eight of them were published in his lifetime in miscellaneous collections of Arie spirituali ( 1640 ) and Ariette ( 1646 ) — we have few means of determining which are early works , which late .
8 Are early experiences of special significance just because they are early , and is the child more malleable at that time ?
9 In the Südstadt , at Mariahilfstrasse 17 , Isabella Kacprzak has a group show of Miroslow Balka , Jürgen Drescher and Asta Gröting ; at Mayer & Mayer , the photographic gallery which shares Kacprzak 's space , are early master prints by , among others , Atkins , Fenton , Frith , Hill & Adamson , Kotzsch and Fox Talbot .
10 Some varieties are early birds , and anxious to lead the way .
11 It is unclear what factors dictate whether an infected liver in which there are early signs of tissue injury will progress to ‘ filbrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ or cirrhosis .
12 Most alternative and oppositional groups have been of type ( ii ) , though there are early cases of type ( i ) and some later cases of type ( iii ) .
13 that firms who are early adopters of new technology get a greater benefit than do laggard firms , or by contrast ,
14 As with new courses , in any one session , of all candidates actively involved in assessments , some will be taking assessments which are early steps along the way to the award , whilst others will be taking assessments which will complete the set of subjects making up the group awards .
15 A belated but growing recognition of both of these problems has seen the development of some special initiatives designed to relieve them ; it is too early to tell whether sentencing trends can be reversed but there are early indicators with the under-21s , who are being especially targeted by the probation service in offering courts non-custodial options , that are encouraging .
16 Hypomethylation of DNA , chromosome 5q deletion , and mutations in the newly identified MCC and APC genes have been identified in both adenomas and carinomas suggesting that these are early events in the adenoma-carcinoma sequence .
17 But these are early days .
18 In conclusion , these are early days and there is a lot that still remains to be learned about adoption with contact as far as the children are concerned .
19 But we would add a word of caution : these are early days in the life of the cash flow statement and experience is needed to discover the most appropriate method of analysis .
20 Striker Atkinson said : ‘ These are early days and I still do n't believe I have hit top form . ’
21 Those of you who are still concerned about our results should take comfort in the fact that these are early days and with the season barely three-quarters over we still have ten games remaining in which to pull away from the bottom .
22 According to Aldus the program has outsold their expectations but these are early days yet .
23 At a recent VR lecture tour in Amsterdam , Leary , the founder of multi-media software company Knoware , acknowledged that these are early days for VR ( most of the audience were disappointed by what they saw but impressed by what they heard ) .
24 Isaac says these are early days and we should look again after 6 months .
25 However they 're quick to point out that these are early days and they may not even have the right gene .
26 Both of these are early representatives of articulated heterostracan fishes with well developed dermal skeletons and they may offer insights into the anatomy of the earliest vertebrate armour .
27 Departures from the UK are early morning on Fridays .
28 There are early mentions of the Portadown district in Latin documents about Papal taxation in 1296 and 1302 where the references are to Plebs Varren ( or , more familiarly , Ballyoran ) and the name ‘ Ballywarren al' Portadowne ’ is in the Ulster Inquisitions of 1609 but Portadown as a village only came into existence at the Plantation of Ulster .
29 Wall hangings and tapestries are early examples of interior design , while churches and monasteries were filled with altar cloths , Lenten veils and ecclesiastical garments , often woven and embroidered with elaborate patterns .
30 For instance , most girls come from lower income families — often one-parent families — and may be early school leavers .
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