Example sentences of "to the early " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 2 | From the 1950s through to the early 1980s he published an important series of papers , the majority in the Cambrian Archaeological Association 's Archaeologia Cambrensis , notably on the Pembrokeshire castles of Carew , Manorbier and Pembroke , and the native Welsh castles of Dinas Bran and Caergwrle in the north of the principality . |
| 3 | Disputes among Spanish and Indian painters themselves , in some ways antecedents of all subsequent debates around ‘ indigenism ’ , go back to the early days in Cuzco . |
| 4 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |
| 5 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 6 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 7 | This reaction owes its first impulse to the early days of punk , when groups like Marine , The Pop Group and A Certain Ratio first dabbled , intrigued , in funk . |
| 8 | This term , a throwback to the early 1970s , is well past retirement age . |
| 9 | This very early phase of the Bronze Age was also marked by the appearance of a distinctive ceramic form called the Beaker , which also lends its name to this period of transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age . |
| 10 | all of which calibrate to the Early or Middle Bronze Age ; such a body of evidence can not be chance . |
| 11 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 12 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 13 | The use of coinage was also abandoned in Russia from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century , and in Japan from the tenth to the fourteenth century . |
| 14 | The flamboyant , cigar smoking Michael Grade bowed to postbag pressure from teenage TV watches who were demanding that the ‘ Down Under Soap ’ recently introduced to the UK should be switched from its mid-morning slot to the early evening schedule . |
| 15 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 16 | The lace-like type that come within these groups are very slow in growing ; one we have , which is reputed to date back to the early '20s if not beyond , stands less than five foot tall but measures eight foot across . |
| 17 | To revert to the early Christian analogy between the physical universe and a tune , the singer can survive without a song . |
| 18 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 19 | The appearance of Anna Seward , Anna Aikin Barbauld , Hannah More , Charlotte Smith , Helen Maria Williams and others , entailed that women were largely setting the poetic fashion from the late 1770s to the early 1790s . |
| 20 | With reference to the early part of the century Eagleton writes : ‘ It does not seem that the emulsive space of the public sphere extended beyond parsons and surgeons to farm labourers or domestic servants … |
| 21 | New laws protecting the mentally handicapped from conception to the early days of life would be strongly opposed an a breach of civil liberties , hence the generally adverse reaction to the bringing of the Leonard Arthur case , and the Hammersmith and Rochdale Down 's cases . |
| 22 | Lower Mill continued in sporadic use up to the early 1970s , when it was still used to grind animal feed for the adjacent farm . |
| 23 | It then reverted to flour milling and was producing flour and animal feed up to the early 1920s . |
| 24 | From the antechamber of the Czech Chancellery a spiral staircase leads to the early 16C hall of the Court Chancellery which contains original furniture of the time of Rudolf Il . |
| 25 | Karel Škréta belongs to the early Baroque . |
| 26 | Walking westwards to the early chapels by Kryštof Dientzenhofer , the space is much less fluid . |
| 27 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 28 | So far as smaller country and town stations were concerned , there was a wave of rebuilding of Grand Trunk stations in the 1880s and 1890s , but the boom years in station-building ( though not in profits ) were those from the late 1890s to the early 1920s . |
| 29 | The combination of utilitarian function , personal advertisement through statues and inscriptions , and florid architectural ornament is typical of imperial buildings in the Mediterranean provinces in their heyday from the late first century to the early third century AD . |
| 30 | This blood-line was particularly helpful to the early breeders because the line was in-bred , his parents being brother and sister of excellent breeding and so consequently true to type . |