Example sentences of "[prep] this stage [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 During this stage you are seeking to make the report utterly convincing and readable .
2 Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses .
3 Now I suggest Chairman that there are number of on your paper which probably the Committee could really of this stage I think the sort of important ones .
4 It has often been pointed out that even if he had written nothing before this stage he would still be regarded as an important poet .
5 In this stage they neither feed nor move , while inside they are busily reorganizing their bodies .
6 From this stage I proceeded to a more general sense of superiority , which can only be described as moral .
7 Up to this stage it will have been fairly easy for them to break off their activities should the occasion demand it .
8 At this stage we will have to wait and see what state they are in before we make a decision . ’
9 At this stage we were selling about three thousand tons of polyester film a year and my two closest lieutenants , my planning and marketing colleagues , persuaded me we should double the size of the plant at Dumfries in Scotland and that we should build another plant in Europe .
10 At this stage we had discovered that Kungsleden is a motorway for German ‘ Pennine-wayers ’ .
11 At this stage we did n't have a proper school to work in , so most of his education took place out hacking .
12 At this stage we are concerned with the personal touch ; self-completed questionnaires will be dealt with later .
13 Nevertheless , the questions themselves , at this stage , will be the main focus , and also at this stage we might allow more questions to be included than are likely to be used at the final stage .
14 At this stage we are only roughing-out our interview schedule , but the more attention we can give to detail now the more we are likely to be saving ourselves trouble later on .
15 At this stage we merely introduce them in passing ; we will return to them in greater detail later on .
16 At this stage we need not worry too much whether the material is glassy or crystalline and all we really need to know about the solid is the Young 's modulus and the surface energy .
17 ‘ We 'll do all we can to get Ian ready , but at this stage we do n't know whether he 'll be ready or not , ’ said manager Graeme Souness .
18 Investigating officers sifted through the debris of the workshops yesterday in an attempt to discover the cause of the fire but Detective Sergeant Andy Adams of Clacton police said : ‘ At this stage we are not able to say exactly how the fire started .
19 Dr Fyfe said : ‘ At this stage we have no idea what went wrong . ’
20 At this stage we were unsure how to deal with the social category of sex ( the way gender was talked about in those days ) .
21 EP : What I suggest we do — nothing 's going to be decided today — I can arrange for you to have a look at one of these weekly residential schools — at this stage we 're saying let's look .
22 At this stage we were not aware of the full significance of the movement of the spoil to form the rampart .
23 At this stage we want only to make an initial contrast between explaining and understanding .
24 But not without the ballast that just saves Gregory from run-of-the-mill frippery. at this stage we are trowel-fed our socialist message when Meridon , aka Sarah , Last of the Laceys , is torn between the current management of her inherited estate as one of the popular communes of 18th-century England , run as a profit-share system by the workers , and the sweet novelties of high-society capitalism .
25 Consider the matrix unc It is assumed that at this stage we have no knowledge of its eigenvalues .
26 At this stage we should look briefly at the third and final possibility , and with it some cases we shall not be discussing in this book .
27 At this stage we must introduce another complication .
28 He added , ‘ But I must emphasize that at this stage we simply can not tell .
29 At this stage we decided to end the game and start dancing .
30 At this stage we have labour pains ; but the child will be born .
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