"As originally envisaged" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that was planned or imagined in a certain way at the beginning. Example: As originally envisaged, the company's expansion plans included opening multiple branches in different cities.
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Even today, Pigovian taxes as originally envisaged are relatively rare.
The publishers, however, were interested only in a definitive large-scale work, as originally envisaged.
The third debate, a head-to-head between Cameron and Miliband due to be broadcast jointly by Channel 4 and Sky News, would go ahead as originally envisaged.
With lawmakers, regulators and bankers blowing raspberries at crucial parts of the package, the odds are moving against its becoming law by the end of the year, as originally envisaged.
While the justice secretary, Michael Gove, has implied the bill may not be as radical as originally envisaged, others fear that a vote to remain within the EU on 23 June could force Downing Street to appease disappointed Brexiters with a more substantial attack on the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.
But Mr Clegg's spokesman said he "remains to be persuaded" that changing the ratios, as originally envisaged by Tory education minister Liz Truss, was a good idea.
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Writing in the Observer, Kruger says ministers such as Nick Hurd at the Cabinet Office have done excellent work with new laws that could enable local people to take over public assets and run public services, as Cameron originally envisaged when he promoted the big society as a way to transform Britain before the last election.
Over time, the Scout program has been reviewed and updated in many of the countries where it is run, and special interest programs developed such as Air Scouts, Sea Scouts, outdoor high adventure, Scouting bands, and rider scouts, but the same core values and principles as Baden-Powell originally envisaged still apply.
The PSP, which Ofcom first proposed in 2004 as a solution to broadcasters' dwindling ability to afford making public service programming, was originally envisaged as a body that would have a budget of £300m.
"Price will be used as a proxy for quality and if pricing controls are lifted, as Lord Browne's team originally envisaged, then we will certainly see wide variations in fees just as we do today in the master's market, but that may not be relevant to the direct costs of provision.
The new Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade was originally envisaged as having a staff of just two.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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