Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each cycle de Gaulle passed through three stages — the assumption of France , the period of recognition and power , and the final phase of withdrawal . |
| 2 | This passed through preliminary stages and was debated during the period prior to the date of the election . |
| 3 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 4 | He will start on the substitutes ' bench and Souness said : ‘ The chances are good people will see Barnes involved at some stage . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed at one stage that the dealer was dead — even some of the larger , more old-fashioned companies announced plans to introduce a direct sales scheme at the start of 1993 , although this has yet to happen . |
| 6 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 7 | However , it also seemed at this stage that science depended on uniformity and invariance . |
| 8 | The research consisted of four stages — the first to show us where we were before the campaign went on air , the second ( half way through the 8-week TV campaign ) and the third ( immediately after the campaign had finished ) to show what impact the advertising had . |
| 9 | Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour . |
| 10 | She belonged in this stage set , among these lies . |
| 11 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 12 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 13 | He dealt very little with guitar techniques and almost entirely with musicality and musical ideas , which is what I needed at that stage . |
| 14 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 15 | We all started at different stages on the smaller mountain for beginners . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You very nearly got to that stage today . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 22 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |
| 23 | ‘ Marge ? ’ offered Ivy , in a frank , open tone , and tea went through such stages as could be managed in those days of austerity . |
| 24 | According to the obstetrician , Isaac Barker Brown , female insanity went through eight stages , beginning with hysteria , and was largely due to ‘ failure of nervous power … produced by peripheral irritation arising in the branches of the pudic nerve , more particularly the incident nerve supplying the clitoris ’ . |
| 25 | The move from anti-Jewish sentiments to full-scale political anti-semitism went through several stages . |
| 26 | In 1980 60% of Digital 's systems went through this stage . |
| 27 | The reduction in the number of candidates had a side effect in that no count in 1975 went beyond 12 stages whereas in 1973 two counts reached 18 stages . |
| 28 | Salomon , who had left Germany when he was nine , showed few signs of anything like this happening to him — although he was reported as ‘ somewhat unsociable ’ and disappeared at one stage for three days , returning well and happy . |
| 29 | It was our duty , he felt at that stage , to desist from overpopulating the planet . |
| 30 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |