Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage .
2 Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ?
3 Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate .
4 Bent over at an ungainly angle , trying to wrench the thing free , Bernice was acutely conscious of the picture that she must be making .
5 But their efforts were brushed aside at an angry meeting of Durham County Council , which approved the social services committee 's decision to close the homes .
6 Through the provision of contracts on admission , and ongoing reviews of each resident 's career in the Home , difficulties might be ironed out at an early stage .
7 The snags can be ironed out at an early stage .
8 The management contractor , by being brought in at an early stage , will become involved in the design process in co-operation with the client 's designer .
9 If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) .
10 Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him :
11 The Presidential Grant for 1993/94 was proposed by at an inflation-linked figure of £1,368 .
12 The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies .
13 This allowed illegal letter strings to be ruled out at an early stage .
14 Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date .
15 Now children began to be weaned traumatically at an early age and subject to parental authority in childhood .
16 The conference adopted the minority report and family allowances were not discussed formally at an annual conference again until 1941 .
17 Many Rottweilers have been encouraged forward at an early age by less than proficient trainers , who then find that the dog 's defensive instinct matures , they are powerless to control the fruit of their labour .
18 Once the material is there , it can be retrieved again at an astonishing speed , so long as the method of input is sufficiently well devised .
19 Before and after this period , subjects also pointed either at an auditory target or using a non-preferred hand in order to identify the mechanism by which this adaptation occurred .
20 A REGIME of terror at a hospital for the mentally handicapped was described yesterday at an industrial tribunal .
21 Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU .
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