Example sentences of "[vb pp] the first stage " in BNC.

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1 When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice .
2 Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network .
3 These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator .
4 He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office .
5 , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College .
6 An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units .
7 The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened .
8 ‘ Now you have reached the first stage ’ , said the guru .
9 The removal of price subsidies on many basic goods and utilities , with effect from Feb. 1 , marked the first stage of Bulgaria 's major market economic reforms .
10 I 'm sure we have n't yet finished the first stage .
11 On May 18 Isa Kambarov , deputy leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front , conceded that " we have lost the first stage of the war " .
12 Much work remains to be done , but we have achieved the first stage in gaining agreement to our approach in ensuring Hampshire 's future services . ’
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