Example sentences of "early [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extension in the early Cambrian led to the eruption of the basic Tayvallich Volcanic Formation in western Scotland . |
| 2 | Developments in the semi-conductor industry in the early seventies led to the production of microprocessor chips which were fast , reliable and cheap enough to be mass produced . |
| 3 | In fact , the failure of the ASEAN countries to issue a neutralisation blueprint in early 1975 resulted from the communist victories in Indo-China , which changed the political and social balance of forces in Southeast Asia . |
| 4 | The various White Papers of the early 1940s argued for the reorganisation of social services on ethical , egalitarian and humanitarian grounds . |
| 5 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 6 | Two men in their late teens or early twenties came into the office and pointed their guns at the cashiers face . |
| 7 | The work on conditioning went on and in the early 1960s led to the discovery of the ‘ contingent negative variation ’ , which became a subject of study throughout the world . |
| 8 | individual/individual e.g. the televised Kennedy/Nixon debates in the early 1960s worked to the former 's advantage . |
| 9 | The downward trend in the proportionate use of imprisonment which had begun in the early 1950s halted in the mid-1970s , In fact the turning point can be located quite clearly in 1974 . |
| 10 | On the one hand , the economic recession of the early 1980s coincided with the peaking of school-leaving rates resulting from the baby boom . |