Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [art] early [noun] " 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 Joan Thirsk 's brilliant examination of these variations , region by region , illustrates this for the period from 1500 onwards ( 103 , pp.1–112 ) , and there is no reason to believe that a similar diversity did not exist at the earlier period also , although there were probably changes in detail in particular areas , such as those caused by climatic change to which allusion was made in Chapter 1 .
3 The court decided that the adoption by the Secretary of State of this general policy , which had the result that the judicial views were not sought at the earliest opportunity after conviction and sentence , was unlawful .
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 With regard to other pets , puppies generally learn at an early stage not to pursue a cat sharing the home with them .
8 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 .
9 Occupation outside the main fort at Ilchester clearly began at an early date and probably included native elements .
10 Hume gives photograph after photograph of steepsided valleys in limestone and sandstone country in Egypt , which are obviously of watercut form , many of them containing caves , from which springs probably issued at an earlier period .
11 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 .
12 The middle-horns were the most esteemed of draught cattle because of their activity and hardiness ; they would also fatten at an early age if not working but the milk yield of the cows was poor in comparison with the short-horned cattle of Durham , Yorkshire and Lincolnshire .
13 K-ras gene mutations , by contrast with p53 , clearly occur at an earlier stage in the neoplastic sequence .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Half-finished seals were even found at the early settlement of Fournou Konh .
17 Miller finds that patterns are almost always well defined at an early age , consist of between 20 and 25 distinct preferred activities , and are thereafter extremely difficult to change .
18 SAVE has been closely involved at the early stages of two more , The Hazells in Bedfordshire and Cullen House in Banffshire , both of which were under serious threat .
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