Example sentences of "at a earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He said Shooter , who admitted the blackmail plot at an earlier hearing , was an author of several works of fiction . |
| 3 | If either had applied promptly , the appellant would have brought into the action at an earlier stage and the defendant would , in all probability , have been forced to give consideration then to the making of a claim to contribution in respect of his liability , if proved , to the plaintiff . |
| 4 | This view , which had been accepted by Britain at an earlier date , was reiterated by the Ministry of Fuel and power to the Defence Committee in 1946 . |
| 5 | At an earlier stage the council had accepted the architects ' proposal to replace the chainlink fencing around the adjacent churchyard with cast-iron railings of period appearance . |
| 6 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 7 | Darby was convicted , along with his assistant Leslie Thomas , 26 , also of the Isle of Dogs , at an earlier hearing on two counts of conspiracy to manage premises where drugs were known to be available . |
| 8 | The rest is up to the children , music included ; as Runswick and music director Terry Edwards discovered on their rounds of the schools at an earlier stage in the project , the teachers had only to supervise , rarely to prompt or invent-solid preparation indeed for the GCSE 's new emphasis on composition . |
| 9 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 10 | People ( women as well as men ) often have fatal heart attacks at an earlier age . |
| 11 | Political honours have to pass the scrutiny of a committee made up of Lords Shackleton , Pym and Grimond , a team scrupulously chosen to represent the three main strands of opinion in parliament , and each of them himself the recipient of a life peerage at an earlier date . |
| 12 | Custom manufacturing , where the product is at an earlier stage of development and they work with the client in scale-up and production . |
| 13 | As a result , we will advise you of the latest schedules on your Final Invoice , but we will not advise you of any timing changes at an earlier date . |
| 14 | Renters were younger and at an earlier stage in the developmental cycle . |
| 15 | Others intercede at an earlier stage , working along the routes that the municipal trucks take . |
| 16 | Scientific developments continue to find ways of screening for mental handicap at an earlier point in the pregnancy . |
| 17 | At an earlier time , when the Bentley was still on the motorway , a conference was taking place in the upper rooms of Jack 's house . |
| 18 | Opportunistic screening would , it is believed , identify more cases at an earlier stage . |
| 19 | Plumb and Sayers were also charged with breaking into Ransomes cycle shop in Victoria Road , Alton , at an earlier date and stealing £1,600 of goods including clothing , cycles parts , pumps and sunglasses . |
| 20 | If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample . |
| 21 | If the action project were succeeding in sustaining at home people who without its services would have been in an institution at an earlier date , then we would expect the action sample clients still at home at six months and 12 months to be more disadvantaged in the possession of factors likely to affect home care potential . |
| 22 | However , atherosclerosis appears to be more extensive and to develop at an earlier age in diabetic patients ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 23 | In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage . |
| 24 | More success might be expected from measures directed towards offering help at an earlier stage when the patient is less distressed , for example when the patient gets in touch with the general practitioner . |
| 25 | And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age . |
| 26 | Although you should make a specific time when candidates can ask their own questions you should also allow time for questions which arise naturally at an earlier stage of the interview . |
| 27 | What is possible already is to detect the chromosomal sex of a fetus either by amniocentesis or , at an earlier stage of development , by sampling of chorionic villi ; and if the fetus is of the unwanted sex , it could be aborted . |
| 28 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Delegates felt that women had more talent than men for spotting potential sources of trouble and taking action at an earlier stage . |