Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , given the earlier findings on investment intensity , this matter did need clarification . |
| 2 | With the establishment of colonies as opposed to trading posts , came the need for production and exports over and above what had sustained the earlier economic relationships between the West and the tropics . |
| 3 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 4 | [ Having considered the earlier authorities his Lordship continued : ] |
| 5 | 24 Thus , by maintaining in 1927 that O'Keeffe 's art was not emotional , McBride was the first to offer a direct and unqualified challenge to the Stieglitz-generated idea that had dominated the earlier criticism . |
| 6 | You see , we ca n't get away from the fact that if Kemp was in London , he could easily have caught an earlier train . |
| 7 | But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia . |
| 8 | Nor is Wilson likely to have forgotten an earlier incident in which a young lady in the cabinet office had to be charged and was convicted of supplying documents to a South African intelligence agent . |
| 9 | By evening the largest society , the Halifax , had dropped an earlier hope it might be able to resist the rise . |
| 10 | The rebels had apparently dropped an earlier insistence that the UN should take over main government ministries until elections . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 13 | However this effort to resolve the problems of access and content within an institutional framework has apparently seriously weakened the earlier close ties with social and political movements in working-class communities in the city . |
| 14 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 15 | That is why , if the stock exchange had built Taurus many years ago , as promised , it could also have ensured the earlier abolition of stamp duty . |
| 16 | Aquino had suffered an earlier disappointment when Imelda Marcos , widow of the former dictator , was in July 1990 acquitted by a US federal court on corruption charges [ see p. 37613 ] . |
| 17 | Eliot had written an earlier ‘ Debate between Body and Soul ’ , entitled ‘ Bacchus and Ariadne ’ , and probably inspired by Titian 's painting in the National Gallery . |
| 18 | Argov himself had written an earlier letter of such hostility that it had to be returned by the paper because its contents were regarded by lawyers at The Times as potentially defamatory . |
| 19 | Nothing gives so bad an impression to the other members of the committee and to the officers present than a member who talks without having read his agenda papers , or who has missed an earlier meeting where the matter was fully discussed or who talks for the sake of talking on every subject . |
| 20 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 21 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 22 | Thus George Harrison 's song " My Sweet Lord " was alleged to have infringed an earlier song " He 's so Fine " , but it is thought that the evidence required to support this proposition would have to be quite strong . |
| 23 | Students had defied an earlier instruction from the King to end the boycott , the second in six months . |
| 24 | Am I right in thinking I have seen an earlier and a later version . |
| 25 | ‘ We would have preferred an earlier chance to get back on the rails , ’ admitted Thompson , whose side 's defeat ended a run of six consecutive wins . |
| 26 | It may therefore have had an earlier importance as an alternative main road to Oxford in late Saxon times before the arrival of Woodstock . |
| 27 | ( In November 1991 trade negotiators had postponed an earlier deadline — see pp. 38601-02 . ) |
| 28 | A charter of Hlothhere , however , refers to 1 April 675 as ‘ in the first year of our reign ’ ( CS 36 : S 7 ) , which means that he became king in 674 at the earliest and 17 September in his seventh year can have fallen no earlier than 680 . |
| 29 | There seemed no reason why he should have known any English , Joseph reflected as they drove on and concluded in his own mind that the wary-eyed Annamese probably had n't understood the earlier conversation . |
| 30 | Meanwhile German ministers say the waste has not crossed their borders and the French environment minister , Huguene Bouchardeau has retracted an earlier claim that the waste had left France . |