Example sentences of "earlier in [art] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a foreign observer like Alexis de Tocqueville earlier in the century to describe ‘ the people of the United States as that portion of the English people which is commissioned to explore the wilds of the New World ’ . |
| 2 | At some stage earlier in the century , a malt roller mill was added . |
| 3 | It is worth reiterating that this yearning to return is a potent mirror image of Zionist belief and aspiration earlier in the century , and is likely to have the same tenacity . |
| 4 | Montreal was catching up with developments which had taken place at many American stations earlier in the century . |
| 5 | If Singapore acquired pretensions as the gateway to a continent in the 1920s and 1930s , Hong Kong had secured similar status earlier in the century . |
| 6 | The forerunners of the railway stations of the Trans-Siberian were the ètapes , the stockaded rest stations with barrack-like rooms , and the post-houses which had been built across Siberia earlier in the century . |
| 7 | Australian railways took up and developed the Italianate style which had been so influential in Britain and the United States earlier in the century , and by the time the principal Australian stations were built , classical was in style once more . |
| 8 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 9 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 10 | Earlier in the century , while still a young man , he returned to England , disapproved of the climate , and finally bought a chalet in the south of France . |
| 11 | It was strongly protected by walls completed in 1618 and occupied by the descendants of the Scottish Presbyterians ‘ planted ’ there earlier in the century . |
| 12 | Using this approach he attacks in particular those theologians earlier in the century who criticised capitalism and who equated the Kingdom of God with socialism . |
| 13 | While I think he is right to criticise those who propounded a social gospel earlier in the century he does so for the wrong reason . |
| 14 | Smyth ( 1978 ) in Alternatives to Animal Experiments , points out that several of its techniques , such as mass spectrometry , gas chromatography , and the use of isotopes in biomedical research , were developed much earlier in the century on the grounds of simple efficiency . |
| 15 | Earlier in the century there was much less emphasis upon the exact valuation of a heritor 's holdings , but there was , equally , little doubt in the minds of freeholder-heritors that they should be the judges of the qualifications of a candidate , and that a presentation should be obtained in accordance with their views . |
| 16 | The lords had acted as a jury in state trials earlier in the century , and communal accusations outside parliament were not unknown , but there appears to be no precedent for the hearing of communal accusations in parliament before a jury of lords : this was the essential novelty in 1376 . |
| 17 | This was particularly true of marriages earlier in the century ( Glass and Grebenik 1954 ) . |
| 18 | The development of classical electromagnetic theory would have been much impaired if the action at a distance approach had been abandoned earlier in the century because of the superior progress of the field programme . |
| 19 | Statistical analysis also developed apace making use of statistical theories which had their origins earlier in the century in the work of Pearson especially . |
| 20 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 21 | Earlier in the century two broadcloth weavers in 1757 testified that fourteen , fifteen or sixteen hours was the input required to make good wages . |
| 22 | John Walsh has written of Methodism earlier in the century when it was still painfully experiencing instigated mob hostility that it is " improbable that infant Methodism was strong enough to have much overall effect as an emollient to industrial disturbance , let alone prevent a general revolt " . |