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

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1 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 .
2 1.4 Plans and photographs are indispensable in many personal injury cases and are best prepared at an early stage .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 With regard to other pets , puppies generally learn at an early stage not to pursue a cat sharing the home with them .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 K-ras gene mutations , by contrast with p53 , clearly occur at an earlier stage in the neoplastic sequence .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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