Example sentences of "earlier in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 2 | The car had been stolen earlier in a raid in Freelands then driven over 20 miles to the isolated village of Milcombe near Banbury . |
| 3 | There were a lot of street girls and petty criminals , he called them his pros and cons , but one of them had seen my daughter Pippa a week earlier in a cafeteria somewhere near . |
| 4 | Many cases could be settled far quicker , and probably far cheaper , if an early Williamson Tender had forced the defenders to consider their respective positions rather earlier in a case . |
| 5 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 6 | Plants will normally come to bloom earlier in a greenhouse than outside , but in either case the most propitious time for the operation is during a spell , and after a couple of days , of bright sunny weather . |
| 7 | Clough died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 27 August 1916 of injuries sustained three days earlier in a railway accident while examining rocks in a narrow cutting . |
| 8 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 9 | CD had already satirized the Movement some years earlier in a piece for The Examiner ( 3 June 1843 ) , ‘ Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Condition of the Persons variously engaged in the University of Oxford ’ ( collected in MP ) . |
| 10 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 11 | Earlier in the story Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw ahead of him the place where he thought he would kill his son . |
| 12 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |
| 13 | As with other terms discussed here , the reader is required to remember contextual meanings created earlier in the fiction . |
| 14 | During the twentieth century , married couples have not only reduced the size of their families , they have also completed their families much earlier in the marriage . |
| 15 | Many of these candidates had completed their studies much earlier in the session and would have been eligible for certification at earlier dates if centres had requested this . |
| 16 | Earlier in the conversation MacArthur discounted suggestions that Walt Butterworth would assume responsibility for dealing with a treaty . |
| 17 | Ethnic group status was mentioned earlier in the case of negroes than it was in the case of white people , and gender role was mentioned earlier in the test and more often by women than by men . |
| 18 | It may be impractical for all clubs to ‘ invest ’ in another replay in this manner earlier in the competition . |
| 19 | An Opel Rekord , stolen three days earlier in the Piraeus , pulls up 20 yards behind them . |
| 20 | It is at this point that the old Gotthard road and the railway line both cross to the west side of the valley while the modern motorway in galleries and tunnels cuts through the steep rock-flank of the massive Bristen , which was seen on the horizon earlier in the route . |
| 21 | The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 . |
| 22 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 23 | As indicated earlier in the text , this assessment would be achieved by various means such as observing the person ; acquiring information about the person 's usual habits in relation to this AL partly by asking appropriate questions , partly by listening to the patient and/or relatives ; and using relevant information from available records , including medical records . |
| 24 | Alternatively , they might pause in order to connect the material they have just read to material they had read earlier in the text . |
| 25 | Irrespective of this , we have seen a character wearing a white volupeer earlier in the text : not in the Reeve 's Tale , but Alison , in the Miller 's Tale ( 3241 ) . |
| 26 | As mentioned earlier in the text , it is important to proceed with caution when acting for joint buyers . |
| 27 | Though I 'll say as I said earlier in the half there 's some play some referees might have seen that as a sending off offence . |
| 28 | The five players returned to the hotel 's night-bar , where they had been asked to calm down earlier in the night . |
| 29 | Even people who claim to remember dreams every morning only recall their most recent dream , and any dreams they may have had during the two or three REM periods earlier in the night , or even during REM sleep , are completely lost . |
| 30 | Were you sitting by your window earlier in the night , say between eleven and twelve ? ’ |