Example sentences of "[verb] to that stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have come to that stage now and the council has reached the conclusion that Mr Sugden 's proposition is the best on offer and we have no hesitation in recommending it to you . ’ |
| 2 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 3 | For instance , being in the business , and purporting to understand the wider implications , our designs would have to be sensitive to the practicalities and compromises involved in production — whether or not these instruments ever got to that stage . |
| 4 | The problem is it 's not got to that stage yet . |
| 5 | Unfortunately we 've not got to that stage yet , and it 's very rare for a threatened famine to be prevented by the international relief community , and even , once it has occurred , it 's very rare for the relief to run smoothly , so I think the research part is to try and find out how to get the right aid to the right people at the right time . |
| 6 | So you get to that stage , and you think forget this . |
| 7 | See by the time I get to that stage it 's too late to do any thing to send off |
| 8 | Mm , find it difficult when you get to that stage , it 's usually when you , once you want |
| 9 | Yes , it 's very hard because you get to that stage where you know you can only really push forward for so long , then when it you know , the whistle looms near , you try and you know , you 're just going to go for the result really , and keep it you know , a clean sheet and just get a point out of the game . |
| 10 | This claim is not a conscious , spoken claim ; if it gets to that stage , we have already left it too late . |
| 11 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 12 | The skill in midlife is to discover the beauty that belongs to that stage in life and to accept it willingly . |
| 13 | A vertical thread on the chart showed the actual number of vehicles which had been completed to that stage at a given time . |
| 14 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
| 15 | ‘ You very nearly got to that stage today . ’ |
| 16 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 17 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 18 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 19 | it might never come to that stage . |
| 20 | But he does not believe it will get to that stage . |
| 21 | But I do n't think we can really er get to that stage beyond this first one . |
| 22 | Do you think it 's good that people can get to that stage ? |
| 23 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 24 | Nottingham , the holders , outbowled by Cumbria in the quarter-finals , had been fortunate to survive to that stage . |
| 25 | Erm his brain when you 're talking about human endeavour and craft skill you know , to enable you to get to that stage of , of er er fine working , erm takes a lot of intensive you know , er er attitude . |
| 26 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 27 | Being involved at Wembley that time whetted my appetite to get to that stage on a more important basis . |
| 28 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 29 | The miners ' strike put paid to that stage of the project and Peter returned to the Operations Support Group in London to prepare operating procedures and training manuals for the Ula platform . |