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

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1 This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms .
2 Tell the candidate what is happening at the next stage in the selection and/or the date when you will be letting people know your decision .
3 The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style .
4 Thus a computer architecture and instruction set can be frozen at a later stage in the design process , and can be altered as a result of any inadequacies or improvements .
5 The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways .
6 Pigments , added at the dry-mix stage in quantities up to 10% by weight , give a good even colouring .
7 Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ .
8 Challenges on this ground can be made at an earlier stage in the reference by a construction summons , which is a procedure by which a party who disputes the meaning of a document can apply to the court for a ruling .
9 This nine-year-old , outpaced at a crucial stage in the race , finished strongly in ninth place , and with Party Politics , gives Mrs Thompson excellent prospects of a second Grand National triumph in 12 months ' time .
10 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 .
11 Thus eclecticism is avoided at the very stage in the process where it is most needed .
12 ( d ) Offices and employments As a matter of prudence , agreement should be reached at an early stage in the life of any firm whose partners , or some of them , are likely to find themselves appointed to some professional or public office as to : ( 1 ) whether remuneration from such offices should in principle be accounted for as part of the profits of the firm ( Clause 10.06 ) ; and ( 2 ) the amount of time any partner should be permitted to devote to such activities ( before his profit share suffers some downward adjustment ) .
13 Before I accept the Secretary of State 's olive branch and damn my political career in front of my colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench , will he clarify at an early stage in the Standing Committee the position about nurses in Wales , England , Scotland and Northern Ireland who take courses and then return to their own districts ?
14 Precisely this question was raised at an earlier stage in our discussions , and I pointed out then that the Government had not come clean at all on the issue of freight and what would happen to freight .
15 As noted in Chapter 4 , women are more likely to become known at a later stage in their heroin career than males for a number of reasons .
16 The Commandment anticipates The Form but is less comprehensive in its analysis , whereas in Ego Dormio although he does not borrow Victorine terminology for his analysis , he nevertheless outlines a growth in religious experience similar to that in The Form but starting at an earlier stage in religious life .
17 This friend suggested that there might be something which had happened at an earlier stage in Kirsty 's life which was causing her health to deteriorate now .
18 Capacity to learn about associations in the world is clearly of great value in a variable environment and appeared at an early stage in animal evolution .
19 You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars .
20 Needless to say , electronic interviewing remains at an early stage in its development .
21 It is characteristic of both plant and animal cells ; in the latter totipotency is lost at an early stage in embryonic development but in plants all cells maintain this ability throughout the life span of the individual .
22 However , the working out of these three dimensions in the undergraduate curriculum is bound to be rather different from their manifestation in the school curriculum because higher education comes at a different stage in the educational life-cycle .
23 Since living Nautilus does not have an ink sac , this must have been a protective device evolved at a later stage in cephalopod evolution .
24 Whenever child abuse is suspected , a conference will be held at an early stage in the investigation and decision-making processes .
25 A false statement in a brochure is made when the brochure is published and is made again ( or alternatively , continued ) when read at a later stage in an uncorrected form by a member of the public .
26 Care should be taken to avoid key information being released at a late stage in the process which therefore weakens the vendor 's controlling hand .
27 K-ras gene mutations , by contrast with p53 , clearly occur at an earlier stage in the neoplastic sequence .
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