Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] at [art] early " in BNC.

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1 Critical rejection of her poetry at an early stage denied her an audience , but also brought her freedom to write on , unfettered by that audience 's demands or limitations .
2 This was a good example , Dexter thought , of Blanche being unwilling to exclude someone from their investigation at an early stage so that they could concentrate their efforts .
3 The Type II disease occurs in yearlings , usually in late winter or spring following their first grazing season and results from the maturation of larvae ingested during the previous autumn and subsequently arrested in their development at the early fourth larval stage .
4 THE under fives of Liphook have an opportunity to develop confidence and fulfil their potential at an early age thanks to three afternoon pre-school groups .
5 In the present proceedings , as counsel has pointed out , the respondent 's chances of purging his contempt at an early stage were not high , even if he had been properly informed of his right to make the attempt , but that is to confuse the existence of a right with its strength .
6 The son of one of the Sheriffs of Glasgow , he lost his hearing at an early age and after first attending an ordinary day school , became one of the private pupils of the Headmaster of the Glasgow Institution .
7 The unpredictability of death can easily lead to embarrassment for the firm , not least because of the fundamental obligation of the personal representatives of a deceased partner to realise the assets comprised in his estate at an early date : and one of these assets will be the deceased 's share in the surplus assets of the firm or ( where the agreement so provides ) the right to be paid out for the value of that share .
8 Instead , the elder Poole apprenticed his son at an early age to the tanning trade , the younger showing his resentment by ‘ ostentatious inattention ’ to the work of the tanyard and a steady devotion to his books .
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