Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying that one cos that 's what we were on about earlier |
| 2 | If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre . |
| 3 | If you knew about show-jumping , you had heard of Nutty McTavish , even seen her on television in replay when there was a lull in the senior event and the commentator decided to fill in with earlier happenings . |
| 4 | This ties in with earlier studies which have found that two-day-old infants who are considered attractive are held closer and spoken to more than unattractive babies . |
| 5 | Along with earlier ideas of colonisation of the landscape , it was assumed that original churches had been supplemented with additional chapels of ease as needed . |
| 6 | Each successive echo from a bat 's own cries produces a picture of the world that makes sense in terms of the previous picture of the world built up with earlier echoes . |
| 7 | He also points out , in passing , that various questions of the sort which have cropped up in earlier chapters of this book , such as whether matter can think , and how it produces mental sensations , ‘ are entirely banished from philosophy ’ by the adoption of immaterialism . |
| 8 | John Major wants to take credit for the recovery without owning up to earlier mistakes — which means he can neither praise the ERM nor bury it . |
| 9 | This study follows on from earlier survey work by the investigator for the Widdicombe Committee . |
| 10 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 11 | The structure of the curriculum proposed for the primary phase is similar to that set out in earlier documentation but includes the following additional components : |
| 12 | For reasons set out in earlier reports and in statements ( IG 16–19 ) concerning her car , abandoned in Exeter station car-park , it is possible , even likely , that she met someone there by arrangement … |
| 13 | The present research project is part of a long-term study of Soviet economic and social history in the inter-war period and it relies heavily on the work carried out in earlier projects . |
| 14 | Other teams from Edinburgh , Glasgow and Strathclyde were knocked out in earlier heats , while St Andrews University pulled out of the contest . |
| 15 | ‘ They are now trying to draw back from earlier opinions , but this does not change my opinion of them . ’ |
| 16 | Back here by twelve in fact , if you want , you can come back in earlier and |
| 17 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 18 | Early air travellers often flew for adventure , not just speed , and some travellers today , who do not have to cram a two-week break into a busy year , have gone back to earlier forms of transport which give them a far sharper sense of going places . |
| 19 | In practical terms , the audit process can be summarised as a sequence of stages ( Fig 13.4 ) although , like the SSM , these should be regarded as guidelines rather than prescriptive , as there may be a need to refer back to earlier activities and make adjustments as the audit progresses . |
| 20 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 21 | You 'll be surprised how often you need to refer back to earlier work . |
| 22 | Much to their chagrin , those who look fondly back to earlier days when things were different , believe efforts by senior officials to regulate the activities of field staff more closely have created an unnecessarily ordered and bureaucratized job . |
| 23 | Polis life was further advanced there — Pindar speaks of ‘ the cities ’ of the Aleuads — and Greek inscriptions go back to earlier dates ( extant ones start c .550 , L. H. Jeffery ( 1961 ) Local Scripts of Archaic Greece , p. 98 , no. 1 , a sacred law ; and Pausanias ( x. 16 ) says that a statue dedicated by a Thessalian called Echekratidas was the first dedication ever made at Delphi ) . |
| 24 | A useful feature of Halsbury is the ‘ Destination Table , ’ which will be found at the end of some consolidating Acts and which enables the provisions of the Act to be traced back to earlier legislation . |
| 25 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 26 | Just when the struggle is most important , my intervention may draw pupils back to earlier parts of their investigation , perhaps even exposing unsuspected or overlooked difficulties , and leave them feeling that they are getting nowhere . |
| 27 | From the point of view of standardization theory , this backward projection of Wyld 's ‘ Received Standard ’ on to earlier states can be seen as an attempt to historicize the standard ( literary ) language — to create a past for it and determine a canon , in which canonical ( 'genuine' ) forms are established and from which unorthodox ( 'non-genuine' or ‘ corrupt ’ ) forms are rejected . |
| 28 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 29 | Yet , it often happens that these variables are socially salient and important for historical projection on to earlier states of language . |