Example sentences of "be [verb] at an [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 2 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 3 | Challenges on this ground can be made at an earlier stage in the reference by a construction summons , which is a procedure by which a party who disputes the meaning of a document can apply to the court for a ruling . |
| 4 | In addition , arrangements should be reached at an earlier juncture for withdrawal of Russian troops and for representatives from the Russian zone to join the governing commission . |
| 5 | In other chairs the arm is integral to the front and back legs , and must be fitted at an earlier stage . |
| 6 | Thus unacceptable strings could be rejected at an earlier stage , leaving fewer for the lexical look-up to check . |
| 7 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 8 | use animals , and then go onto to work using animals , and erm you know , if maybe alternative techniques were introduced at an earlier stage , maybe in their training , they 'd be more likely to them on board . |
| 9 | The pleas were entered at an earlier court which heard the charges arose out of the removal and subsequent sale of gents clothing from the store as well as what was described as the ‘ creaming off ’ of cash from sales at the counter . |
| 10 | She faced her anger at being abandoned at an earlier age than anyone would have expected , and talked about loneliness . |
| 11 | They were first styled nobiles viri only in 1256 , and a tendency towards a late crystallization of a titled noblesse at this level is found in much of south-west France , with the possible exception of the vicomté of Béarn and other areas where primogeniture and impartible inheritance were established at an earlier date . |
| 12 | For instance a rite of lifelong commitment for adults or of young people on the verge of adult life who have been confirmed at an earlier age . |
| 13 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 14 | Precisely this question was raised at an earlier stage in our discussions , and I pointed out then that the Government had not come clean at all on the issue of freight and what would happen to freight . |
| 15 | It would be anomalous if the right to rescind was lost at an earlier date when the misrepresentation does not become a term of the contract . |