Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [art] [adj] stage " in BNC.

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1 Merely looking at the final stage of supply can obscure the full range of options open to a particular firm in its choice of serving foreign markets .
2 The investigating procedure is very naturally divided at an early stage into two aspects — the operational or operating circumstances in which the event occurred , and the examination of the aircraft remains .
3 This division between planning conditions and site licence conditions highlights the need for co-operation between planners , waste disposal officers and other pollution control agencies , at a pre-planning stage wherever possible , in order to reach agreement on those conditions which are to be attached to the planning consent , and those to be attached to the site licence , thus ensuring that problems of control do not arise at a later stage .
4 1.4 Plans and photographs are indispensable in many personal injury cases and are best prepared at an early stage .
5 If agreement for mutual exchange is not reached at an early stage , the defendant will have the advantage of first sight of at least one of the plaintiff 's medical reports .
6 Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery .
7 It is a revelation of how Cubism was taken east from Paris to Bohemia , the industrial heartland of Franz-Joseph 's empire , and adapted to the design of buildings , furniture and household goods which were actually built and made , not left at the visionary stage .
8 There are however , a few strains of mice ( mostly inbred strains or hybrids between inbred strains ) whose eggs and embryos do not block at the two-cell stage ( Table 2 ) .
9 With regard to other pets , puppies generally learn at an early stage not to pursue a cat sharing the home with them .
10 However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse .
11 Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage .
12 Learning handwriting with the non-dominant hand is difficult , so it usually comes at a late stage of recovery .
13 If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage .
14 Because these constructions were both eliminated at an early stage of the transformation to normal form , we have so far not needed any such laws .
15 K-ras gene mutations , by contrast with p53 , clearly occur at an earlier stage in the neoplastic sequence .
16 While bird-watching is often used at an early stage in research to try to develop hypotheses and to make sure one does have some idea of how people behave before going any further , there is no reason why one should not develop more systematic recording schedules to standardize the observations and to develop more of a survey approach .
17 Councillors heard that Homesmith had a good self-build record , but agreed any contract should be put out to tender at a later stage .
18 The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony .
19 The probability that any particular animal is included in the study is thus 1÷3 × 1÷5 = 1÷15 , i.e. the probability of its herd being the one selected times the probability of that animal being then sampled at the secondary stage .
20 Just why there are more calories in the human excreta following the intake of a high-fibre diet is less than fully understood at the present stage of scientific research .
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