Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at an [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 2 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 3 | In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage . |
| 4 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 5 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 6 | Tax paid at an earlier stage is deducted to produce the net tax due at each stage . |
| 7 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 8 | The epithets " naughty " and " dirty " arise , perhaps reinforcing terms used at an earlier stage as regards the eliminatory functions or inadvertent sexual display . |
| 9 | Implementing decisions taken at an earlier gathering [ see p. 39115 ] , delegates also approved a " shadow government " by electing a three-member presidential council ( one Kurd , one Shia and one Sunni ) , with rotating primacy , which then chose a 25-member executive committee ( one Assyrian , one Turkoman , five Kurds , the remaining 18 seats divided between Shias , Sunnis and Arab tribes ) . |
| 10 | To allow pupils to start at an earlier age , teaching will start in P6 , though our system is designed to cope with entrants at P7 and S1 as well . |
| 11 | Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes . |
| 12 | Others intercede at an earlier stage , working along the routes that the municipal trucks take . |
| 13 | The other safeguard arises at an earlier stage of the proceedings , and provides an additional protection for persons who are abroad and not able to be served with proceedings in this country in the usual way . |
| 14 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |
| 15 | Impending bankruptcy It may be preferred to activate the power to expel at an earlier date in the bankruptcy process so as to minimise the damage caused to the firm by protracted , and possibly contested proceedings . |