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Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a [adj] stage " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms .
2	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 .
3	However , it is well worth using in dishes which require the wine to be added at a later stage to give flavouring .
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	However , the ideal could be pursued , which was the basis of the arguments that were considered at a later stage .
6	The lower order changes in responsibility were considered at a later stage when working with Principals to determine the detailed changes required at individual Colleges .
7	Obviously all age-groups are arbitrary ; the point being made here is that the actual divisions used should be chosen for their usefulness in classifying people for the purposes of the research being undertaken , and this decision should be considered at an early stage .
8	The question of whether the proposed disposal is in the best interests of the client and when the business should best be sold should be addressed at an early stage .
9	Alternative arrangements can be developed and their performances assessed , and areas of possible problems can be identified and alleviated at an early stage of the design .
10	If those authorities were negligent or in any way in breach of duty , it is important that that fact should be uncovered at an early stage .
11	They should be instructed at an early stage , and informed promptly of developments .
12	In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage .
13	The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence .
14	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 .
15	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 ’ .
16	So at least eight people with Down 's syndrome were disenfranchised at an early stage by their parents or their electoral registration authority .
17	The plans , like those prepared in 1939 , included structural provision for two transepts , near the pulpit , to be built at a later stage , though it now seems unlikely that this will ever happen .
18	The applicant , as defendant to those proceedings , sought at a late stage to introduce a counterclaim for a declaration that the alternative accommodation offered by the local authority was unsuitable and unreasonable , and for damages .
19	1.4 Plans and photographs are indispensable in many personal injury cases and are best prepared at an early stage .
20	The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study .
21	Additional awards were made at a later stage to three individuals who were unable to attend .
22	Adjustment can then be made at an early stage before it is too late .
23	I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most .
24	As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous .
25	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 .
26	Further constitutional changes were promised at a later stage which would place the relationship between the USSR and its constituent republics on a new and more equitable basis .
27	It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection .
28	While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) .
29	It is well recognised that managing software is difficult because it is in essence a control problem , posing questions such as which particular versions of software items should be used at a particular stage of a project for a particular purpose , or what software should be issued to whom , and when .
30	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 .