Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at a [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 2 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 3 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 6 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The snags can be ironed out at an early stage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 12 | This allowed illegal letter strings to be ruled out at an early stage . |
| 13 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 14 | This particular initiative in community education , although building on a period of active community involvement , set out at an early stage to involve local residents in controlling the educational programme and establishing a structure for participation which , it was hoped , would avoid the sort of elitism which beset the WEA . |
| 15 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |