Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] the [noun] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're not exactly strutting the world stage these days , ’ a Foreign Office source tells me . |
| 2 | Of course that is not the case : we have not even reached the Committee stage , so the guillotine motion can not have been introduced on those grounds . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I am unable to give you a firm price for the software as we have not yet completed the development stage , but it will be somewhere in the region of 65 . |
| 4 | First , cases were occurring in which young people between 16 and 21 ( the then age of majority ) were living away from home and wished and needed urgent medical treatment which had not yet reached the emergency stage . |
| 5 | And dresses are getting fuller — have n't actually reached the crinoline stage , but a more uncomfortable sort of stage where layers and layers of petticoats , so , over your undergarments you 'd wear like eight or nine flannel cotton petticoats to give an impression of fullness . |