Example sentences of "at a late [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a late date in our cultural history , he had created a language both formal and authoritative . |
| 2 | William Reid , 31 , had been fired for protesting at a late lunch order from executives at the Daily Mirror 's London offices . |
| 3 | It reached a pitch this week at a late night fringe meeting , appropriately held in the rooftop suite of a Brighton hotel , when four of the most saleable authors around turned out to promote their ideas and printed wares . |
| 4 | It 's the place for decisions ; whether to have an early night , a session at the disco , or a gossip at a late bar . |
| 5 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
| 6 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 7 | ‘ At a late stage , when you could n't change very much . |
| 8 | Learning handwriting with the non-dominant hand is difficult , so it usually comes at a late stage of recovery . |
| 9 | The sequence of modern physiotherapy treatment normally follows a pattern : the patient has to recover his ability to balance first and foremost ; then he has to recover his ability to transfer his weight from side to side ; standing balance is the next stage , accompanied by the ability to sit down from standing up , and to stand up from sitting ; selective movements using the affected arm and leg come next ; then he learns to make steps , followed by walking ; function in the upper limb ( arm ) and controlling it in order to make selective movements against gravity happens at a late stage ; the final rehabilitation task is to regain functional , detailed movements in the affected hand and foot . |
| 10 | The belief underlying such proposals is that many older people are only referred for treatment at a late stage of dependency when treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 11 | Indeed , getting proposals through is a test of virility for some executives , so notions of change at a late stage in the policy-making process are unreal . |
| 12 | He has claimed success with every kind of tumour that he has treated — including lung cancer at a late stage . |
| 13 | The system allows doors to be assembled separately and fitted to the car at a late stage , to improve access to the car as it proceeds along the line . |
| 14 | At a late stage during the explosive activity from the southeast crater ( 10 September-6 October 1989 ) , two prominent fissures developed , one erupting to the northeast and the second , a non-erupting fissure , extending 7km towards the south-southeast . |
| 15 | The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question . |
| 16 | The applicant , as defendant to those proceedings , sought at a late stage to introduce a counterclaim for a declaration that the alternative accommodation offered by the local authority was unsuitable and unreasonable , and for damages . |
| 17 | 574 , a judge 's decision to call a witness at a late stage of the trial was upheld because he was ‘ not seeking to supplement the prosecution . ’ |
| 18 | This recommended a change in procedures so that adoptive parents would be assured that no changes of mind by the mother at a late stage could result in the removal of a child . |
| 19 | She was apparently close to marriage on two occasions , but withdrew at a late stage . |
| 20 | I was involved in the case at a late stage , and that is the subject of the court 's findings . |
| 21 | Care should be taken to avoid key information being released at a late stage in the process which therefore weakens the vendor 's controlling hand . |
| 22 | Another entry peculiar to D , the death of King Malcolm II of Scotland placed under 1034 , was almost certainly inserted with other information on Scottish history at a late stage in its composition . |
| 23 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 24 | The report mentions one case of a man who tried to sell a plant which would convert rubbish into natural gas , and was only unmasked as a fraud at a late stage when it was shown that his scheme involved a chemically impossible process . |
| 25 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 26 | And this is why at a late stage in À la recherche , Marcel says that it is a mistake , particularly where the artist is concerned , to accept , and I quote , ‘ It 's a mistake to accept things as they are in reality , names as they are written , people as photography and psychology give in an unalterable idea of them . ’ |
| 27 | In retirement , Muccio recalled that Rhee was very intelligent , determined and assertive ; he had reached the top at a late age and was too set in his ways , his attitude having been determined by his lengthy period in exile , amid the seemingly forlorn struggle to save Korea from Japanese colonialism . |
| 28 | So impressed was I that I took Hellen to meet her at a later performance the same week . |
| 29 | There were until about 20 years ago , mosaic pavements from Roman times displayed in their original positions where they had been discovered during field work , together with one unearthed some little distance away at a later excavation . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |