Example sentences of "[prep] a earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Lane said another division of the court had then felt powerless to intervene and hear new grounds of appeal because the Lords restored Berry 's conviction after an earlier successful appeal . |
| 2 | Lord Lane said another division of the court had then felt powerless to intervene and hear new grounds of appeal because the House of Lords had restored Berry 's conviction after an earlier successful appeal . |
| 3 | A players ' union ( the present Professional Footballers ' Association ) was formed in 1907 , after an earlier , unsuccessful attempt in 1898 . |
| 4 | The FT-SE 100 woke up with a bang to finish 20.3 points ahead at a record 2847.8 , after an earlier 1.9 point downturn . |
| 5 | In recent years , after an earlier period of reaction , most of the leading German theologians have been post-Barthian in the sense that while they have departed from him in various ways , they have nevertheless taken a basic orientation from him . |
| 6 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 7 | Several safety audits had been carried out after an earlier explosion in 1984 , but Occidental , the owners , never released the findings . |
| 8 | On May 14 , an emergency session of the Supreme Soviet blamed acting President Mamedov for recent setbacks and reinstated ex-President Ayaz Mutalibov , ousted in March after an earlier military defeat [ see p. 38827 ] . |
| 9 | ‘ The Commission appointed to investigate the disaster came to us after an earlier attempt to prove the cause of the crash had failed , ’ explains senior project manager Steve Jackman . |
| 10 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 11 | Police are appealing for witnesses to the attack which they describe as a very nasty injury inflicted after an earlier verbal confrontation . |
| 12 | Eric Ramsdale , Eddie Taylor , David Ramsdale and skip David Joyce had a purple patch from the fifth to 12 end to beat Les Nicholson , Pearl Wright , Mort Mooney and skip Arthur Dobson narrowly by 14–11 to lead their group after an earlier defeat of 11–12 against group leaders David Bowes . |
| 13 | On the M four at Swindon , that 's eastbound between junctions sixteen and fifteen , tailbacks are now easing following an earlier chemical spillage which has since been cleared . |
| 14 | Despite an earlier suggestion from Jacques Delors , president of the European Commission , that the summit should focus on the originally scheduled topics of aid to the Soviet Union and the Gulf crisis , all the member countries except the UK used the meeting to state their agreement that Stage 2 of economic and monetary union ( EMU — see p. 36598 for three-stage Delors plan for EMU ) should start on Jan. 1 , 1994 , and established an effective negotiating brief for the intergovernmental conferences on political , economic and monetary union due to begin on Dec. 14 . |
| 15 | The strikers , supported by left-wing parties outside the government coalition , were demanding the release of all political prisoners still imprisoned from the Pinochet regime , despite an earlier expression of hope by President Aylwin that all such detainees would be released before the end of the year . |
| 16 | Post Office and health workers staged warning strikes , and in the Fier district , oil industry workers went on strike from Nov. 13 , despite an earlier strike having been deemed illegal on Nov. 4 at a meeting of the Council of Ministers . |
| 17 | Despite an earlier commitment to abide by the result , Savimbi indicated on Sept. 30 that he would not accept defeat as the outcome of the elections . |
| 18 | A plea to downgrade Darlington so it could attract more Government aid is to go ahead despite an earlier warning that it could backfire . |
| 19 | There are some identifiable developed deities ; there are some incongruously primitive daemons too , which may look back towards an earlier period of religious feeling ; there are also some images of divinities which seem to be relatively poorly assimilated foreign imports . |
| 20 | After a century of immensely influential life , Marxism is becoming a dying culture , to adapt the phrase of an earlier Marxist thinker , Christopher Caudwell . |
| 21 | The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner ; those articles , for instance , with titles like ‘ On Rereading Stendhal ’ , which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated . |
| 22 | The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort . |
| 23 | In a related case , four Trinity College Dublin student leaders were cleared of contempt after the society sought to have them jailed for alleged breaches of an earlier injunction restricting distribution of literature on abortion services . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , there is mounting pressure from the City and from industry in favour of an earlier move towards full participation in the EMS . |
| 25 | That Fforde accepts some key Thatcherite assumptions is evident , but in many respects his work , like Thatcherism itself , is reminiscent of an earlier intellectual tradition , in that the more one reads his work the more one thinks of A. V. Dicey . |
| 26 | I would like to thank the following for valuable comments on a part or the whole of an earlier draft : S. Day , A. Gell , El Gellner , P. Loizos , J. Parry , A. Papataxiarchis , and S. Roberts . |
| 27 | How can we expect her to adopt the thought patterns of an earlier age ? |
| 28 | In 1958 , Rank had amalgamated the Odeon and Gaumont circuits , in defiance of an earlier undertaking not to do so . |
| 29 | The outcome of an earlier association ballot was kept quiet while the talks lasted under an agreement with the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke . |
| 30 | Since June , China has reverted to the rhetoric of an earlier era in its diatribes against the US . |