Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [art] early [noun sg] " 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 | Rangers ' pitch will now be lifted at the earliest opportunity and a new one laid in its place , so long as the work can be carried out in time for the new season . |
| 3 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They should be instructed at an early stage , and informed promptly of developments . |
| 9 | In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage . |
| 10 | It must be shared , and its final use must be decided at an early planning stage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | I asked for that to be done at the earliest opportunity , the following morning at 9 o'clock . |
| 15 | So at least eight people with Down 's syndrome were disenfranchised at an early stage by their parents or their electoral registration authority . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 1.4 Plans and photographs are indispensable in many personal injury cases and are best prepared at an early stage . |
| 18 | So many good young dogs have been ruined at an early age by incompetent trainers . |
| 19 | A follow-up meeting in December of that year acted upon suggestions made at the earlier gathering , and aimed to ‘ set up opportunities for women to explore new approaches to theatre-making that more profoundly reflect their own experience rather than that of men ’ . |
| 20 | Adjustment can then be made at an early stage before it is too late . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | but , but we , we , we might come across this again a bit later on th that i it 's entirely possible that what is being said at the early part is n't actually borne out by the details that come later on . |
| 25 | Count Tolstoy 's co-defendant , Nigel Watts had said at an earlier hearing that he had never intended to push the whole debt on to the historian . |
| 26 | No statistically significant influence of sex , body mass index , or age was seen at the early recurrence rate . |
| 27 | High viewing figures allowed a second series to be shown at the earlier time of 9 p.m. , and there are plans for a third series to follow . |
| 28 | Child abuse cases to be given priority to avoid delays and enable therapeutic help to be offered at the earliest opportunity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |