Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Winnicott 's image of the mirror-image is a valid one and what the baby needs at a certain stage is a reflection of a meaningful world in which she/he has some place , we are also back with perception and self-perception . |
| 2 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 3 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
| 4 | Thus , if changes appear at an early stage it may be necessary to carry out more frequent testing ; alternatively , the reverse situation may apply . |
| 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 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 7 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 8 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 9 | However , it is well worth using in dishes which require the wine to be added at a later stage to give flavouring . |
| 10 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 11 | Thus a computer architecture and instruction set can be frozen at a later stage in the design process , and can be altered as a result of any inadequacies or improvements . |
| 12 | In positive terms , Roscoe Pound tried at an early stage to provide a concise , if rather general , statement of what realism stood for : |
| 13 | These benchmarks would indicate to teachers the things which all children ought to know at a particular stage of their development . |
| 14 | However , the ideal could be pursued , which was the basis of the arguments that were considered at a later stage . |
| 15 | The lower order changes in responsibility were considered at a later stage when working with Principals to determine the detailed changes required at individual Colleges . |
| 16 | Obviously all age-groups are arbitrary ; the point being made here is that the actual divisions used should be chosen for their usefulness in classifying people for the purposes of the research being undertaken , and this decision should be considered at an early stage . |
| 17 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 18 | The question of whether the proposed disposal is in the best interests of the client and when the business should best be sold should be addressed at an early stage . |
| 19 | Alternative arrangements can be developed and their performances assessed , and areas of possible problems can be identified and alleviated at an early stage of the design . |
| 20 | If those authorities were negligent or in any way in breach of duty , it is important that that fact should be uncovered at an early stage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They should be instructed at an early stage , and informed promptly of developments . |
| 23 | In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage . |
| 24 | The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | So at least eight people with Down 's syndrome were disenfranchised at an early stage by their parents or their electoral registration authority . |
| 28 | The blip in the graph occurs at a crucial stage of development in firms which until that point were among the fast growers , sharply reducing the number which move on to become medium and larger firms . |
| 29 | Developmental evidence suggests that an attachment to the symbols of monarchy occurs at an early stage , well before sophisticated cost-benefit analyses of national revenue are possible ( Abramson and Inglehan , 1970 ) . |
| 30 | The plans , like those prepared in 1939 , included structural provision for two transepts , near the pulpit , to be built at a later stage , though it now seems unlikely that this will ever happen . |