Example sentences of "that [prep] early " in BNC.
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| 1 | As waves of combat mission flew out by night and day , the commander of this R A F tornado squadron warned that despite early successes , the task was never going to be easy . |
| 2 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 3 | I suggest that in early modern England the sodomite , though not an identity in the modern sense , could and did denote subject positions or types ; ‘ he ’ precisely characterized deviant subject positions as well as denoting the behaviour of individuals . |
| 4 | Jane had heard sounds of violence coming from the Shill 's room on several occasions , and she knew that in early October , shortly before their arrival , Maria had complained to the police after sustaining a broken collar bone when Joseph pushed her through a window . |
| 5 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 6 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 7 | In the context , this ‘ very lax attitude ’ seems to be measured against circumstances ( such as late Old English or the present day ) in which there is a uniform standard of spelling : thus , what this really means is that in Early ME there was no uniform standard , and indeed Scragg adds that these scribes had ‘ no conception of a spelling standard ’ . |
| 8 | And though we know also that in early periods , and especially and persistently in certain forms — drama , dance , choral song — production was not even in this manifest sense individual but was necessarily of a group kind , still the emphasis on ‘ the producer ’ , ‘ the author ’ , remains predominant , because it corresponds quite directly to the manifest conditions of production in writing and in print , and to certain oral forms which directly preceded them . |
| 9 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |
| 10 | As a general model , then , it might be fair to say that in early capitalism the bourgeoisie is very often on the side of the development of civil society , and in later capitalism it is often opposed to such development . |
| 11 | At all events , it was through this channel that in early November he engineered a meeting with Wagner . |
| 12 | In Beijing , foreign correspondents said that in early March Zhang Yafei , a university graduate , was given a seven-year sentence for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " and " organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary group " during the 1989 demonstrations . |
| 13 | But because interest rates were expected to drop gradually over the coming 12 months , the view was that by early 1991 confidence would have returned , volumes picked up and prices started to lift — even if only by the inflation rate . |
| 14 | In 1983 , a five-year experiment with so-called ‘ Tempo 30 ’ zones began , so that by early 1988 there were already 5,000 zones in the country , a number that is still increasing . |
| 15 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 16 | The earliest known vertebrates ( Arandaspida ) show that by early Ordovician times vertebrate life had already developed complex body armour . |
| 17 | As wide a number of technical people as possible will be invited to state their views , so that by early August further adjustments can be made to eliminate those disadvantages that remain and to build in other desirable features that may be considered worthwhile . |
| 18 | The withdrawal of the militias from greater Beirut , the main plank of the security plan , went ahead with relative ease so that by early December the Lebanese army , with Syrian support , was in control of the capital . |
| 19 | Such was the response , in fact , that by early in the second half of the year we had to increase the budget by an additional £250,000 . |