Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] early [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was argued earlier that the role of state enterprises partly reflects the interests of social classes and groups and the way they are represented within the polity . |
| 2 | It was decided early that the organization should be strongly business-led with unified functional departments in support . |
| 3 | It was revealed earlier that Dr Yarab Almahawi , 33 , who was born in Saudi Arabia , was first identified as HIV positive while working in the casualty department of a Northern Ireland hospital . |
| 4 | It was stated earlier that the Poisson distribution was a satisfactory approximation to the binomial in a case such as this ; to test this assertion both equation ( 6.2 ) and equation ( 6.3 ) have been used to calculate the expected ‘ perfectly randomized ’ results . |
| 5 | It was noted earlier that some physics students had had difficulty choosing between science and arts at A level , and these students , like those who had interests such as reading or music , were usually more broad-minded than those who had always regarded themselves as scientists ; for example |
| 6 | It was suggested earlier that our image of the artefact is constantly dominated , not only by linguistic analogies , but also by the concept of art and the uniqueness of the object of art . |
| 7 | It was suggested earlier that the agencies set up during the nineteenth century to implement social policies were often ad hoc bodies . |
| 8 | " Oh , it was agreed earlier that Mr Gerard would only need one of us to assist after the coffee was served , so I pretended to have a headache . " |
| 9 | It was mentioned earlier that the requirements for status and for affection may pull in quite different directions . |
| 10 | It was mentioned earlier that MRDs were designed for human rather than computational use . |
| 11 | It was mentioned earlier that a remotely-sensed image is made up of a number of scan lines and that each scan line contains a large number of pixel values . |
| 12 | In actual fact it was mentioned earlier that V A T er could be imposed on fossil fuel but I think any administration . |
| 13 | It was mentioned earlier that there were weaknesses in the description of accents in terms of geographical variation alone ; the study of sociolinguistics has shown the importance of considering other sources of variation . |