Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at [art] [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 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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 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 .
11 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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