Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] early [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was realised at an early stage that the earthwork plan belied a very complex situation and that there were clearly at least two phases of development .
2 As mentioned earlier , it was realised at an early stage that the new certification framework would have to be underpinned by a documentation method that was easy for all to understand , cost effective and capable of responding to new developments in education and training .
3 No statistically significant influence of sex , body mass index , or age was seen at the early recurrence rate .
4 It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models .
5 It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection .
6 It was appreciated at an early stage that the efficacy of collocational information could vary greatly according to the domain from which it was taken .
7 A base metal exploration programme was abandoned at an early stage leaving a significant IP chargeability anomaly , without accompanying magnetic anomaly , untested ( MEG 113 ) .
8 I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating .
9 The nature of the movies was determined at an early stage and to study film history is to be reminded of the extent to which American and British cultural patterns in the modern era were determined within the context of the late nineteenth-century city .
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