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

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1 It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models .
2 ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value .
3 It was appreciated at an early stage that the efficacy of collocational information could vary greatly according to the domain from which it was taken .
4 The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years .
5 I was quite interested in that actually because you you did imply at an earlier stage that er although seniority was the the important principle in ge in gaining promotion , er there was no harm done if in your favour you know .
6 I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating .
7 It was realised at an early stage that the earthwork plan belied a very complex situation and that there were clearly at least two phases of development .
8 As mentioned earlier , it was realised at an early stage that the new certification framework would have to be underpinned by a documentation method that was easy for all to understand , cost effective and capable of responding to new developments in education and training .
9 These companies realized at an early stage that there is no point in trying to compete with the majors in releasing daytime radio or ‘ Top of the Pops ’ material , and that it would be better to find acts who have proved popular on the live circuit but who are considered too left field for the majors .
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