Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let us assume that standard credit terms for goods received and despatched in this particular industry involve payment after 30 days with neither discounts for early payment nor penalties for late payment . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the answer lies in early amendment of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 so that the misleading claims to which he has referred can be squashed ? |
| 3 | Figure 2.13 : The distribution of ivory rings in early Anglo-Saxon England ( after Huggett 1982 , fig. 7 , with additions ) . |
| 4 | After substantial delays in reaching a decision on the refitting competition , Jonathon Aitken , the defence procurement minister , announced this week that the MoD hoped to announce the outcome as soon as possible after the Easter parliamentary recess finishes in early April . |
| 5 | Religious Freedom Starts in Early Childhood |
| 6 | Despite the drawings , only a glimpse of the richness of Wilkie 's art is shown , a fine example being an oil sketch of ‘ The Death of Sir Philip Sidney ’ , which looks to early Titian in colour and feeling . |
| 7 | There appear to be two types of modifiability in cortical neurons : a slow , irreversible process that occurs during early development , and a rapid , reversible one that continues to operate through life . |
| 8 | The advisory committee 's recommendation now goes to the ESA 's science programme committee , representing the scientific communities of its 13 member states , which meets in early June . |
| 9 | Effective discharge depends upon early screening and identification of those at risk . |
| 10 | In these species mating occurs in early spring and rapid breeding may be an adaptation to avoid predation . |
| 11 | Sexual imprinting also occurs in early life . |
| 12 | Remove dead tips and shoots in early spring , and prune to control the growth at the same time . |
| 13 | After the hectic activity of summer , I look forward to doing more relaxed boating and fishing trips in early autumn . |
| 14 | As the mind progressively clears in early recovery , the sense of guilt and remorse can be so powerful that the sufferer returns to the substance or process of addiction as the only known and practised method of suppressing unpleasant feelings . |
| 15 | But nuclear industry officials doubt the prospects of emission targets being achieved if the present review leads to early retirement of older Magnox stations , providing about 10 per cent of electricity in England and Wales , to accommodate a more concentrated mix of coal and gas stations . |
| 16 | Anthropology thus played a central role in the development of Marxism but it would be totally misleading to think of Marx and Engels as early anthropologists . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , due to the troubled times in this area of central Europe , little survives of early Gothic building ; the great Czech monuments of the Middle Ages are of the fourteenth and fifteenth century , and even later , and are , in consequence , in the richer , more decorative Gothic style . |
| 18 | Part of the attendant upset of passing the Big-O barriers stems from early stereotypes . |
| 19 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 20 | Ms Evans specialises in Early Christian and Byzantine art with a focus on East Christian material . |
| 21 | It was most noticeable at the annual conferences , held in windswept seaside resorts in early October . |
| 22 | One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer . |
| 23 | Vietnam issued protest notes in early September to the Chinese government demanding that it halt " illegal " oil exploration in Vietnamese territorial waters in the Gulf of Tonkin . |
| 24 | Spring passage commonly extends from early March to late May , but sea-watching results from Selsey Bill since 1960 consistently show that the passage peaks in the first three weeks of April , and off Beachy Head Cooper ( 1975 ) found a marked peak between 11 and 20 April . |
| 25 | Unlike true aquatic plants , those of the bog garden must be planted during the traditional planting season which extends from early autumn until late spring . |
| 26 | The mill itself dates from early in the nineteenth century , and its waterwheel remains in situ . |
| 27 | Another long Braemar letter dates from early 1957 . |
| 28 | Wordsworth took the materialist philosophy of Locke and Hartley which had sufficed the eighteenth century , and changed round the terms , writing in positive instead of negative signs Instead of a dead universe described in terms of machines from which the Creator had departed , he proposed a living universe called ‘ Nature ’ described in terms of growth and organic life , which was being continuously created by a God who was inextricably involved in all its parts Whereas in Locke the mind at birth was ‘ a white paper ’ , with no innate ideas , in Wordsworth the mind retains in early childhood some consciousness of a pre-existent state ; in Locke the mind passively receives impressions from the senses , but in but in Wordsworth the mind actively perceives and a creative power within the mind organizes the multitude of chaotic sense impressions into a partial picture of the world . |
| 29 | There is a significant difference between the pattern of the cash flows system of the various projects ( e.g. one project has high cash flow in early years and low cash flows in latter years : while another project has low cash flows in early years and high cash flows in latter years ) . |
| 30 | This is because some weight is given to the cash flows in early years of the bond 's life and this helps to bring forward the average time at which cash flows are received . |