Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] stage " in BNC.

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1 And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ?
2 ( It has to go through all stages in both Houses and receive the Royal Assent . )
3 At first , teachers will have to go through these stages quite carefully with the children , but eventually it is hoped that the children will become independent enough to use the system , or one like it , by themselves .
4 I mean the idea of course is to try at some stage and run a trainer trainer 's course , so that we expand the number of people who can who can do the training .
5 Choose three or four and pick the ones that most need correcting , that is , the words the pupil ought to be able to spell at this stage ( see What goes wrong ? , page 6 ) .
6 It is only necessary to indicate at each stage which proven solution will be used in the next stage .
7 A spokesman for Astra said he did not wish to comment at this stage .
8 Ian Ross , finance director , said : ‘ It is difficult to comment at this stage , because management have an interest .
9 No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career .
10 I only pause to observe at this stage that the decision , although obviously of great importance , was not concerned with the terms upon which interim relief in the form of an interlocutory injunction should be granted .
11 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 .
12 ‘ Obviously you do not have to answer at this stage if you would prefer not to , but I wondered if Mr Riddle had taken out any substantial life insurance or endowment policies ? ’
13 That is a question I am afraid that is impossible to answer at this stage , that wo n't be known until he 's had a thorough investigation by the surgeons at the hospital who er probably wo n't be able to answer that for a day or two yet .
14 We shall briefly discuss three interconnected lines of enquiry and , although the success of these approaches is hard to evaluate at this stage , they have certainly raised many issues which either expose the incompleteness of the simple Keynesian model or point to fundamental inadequacies within it .
15 Suffice to state at this stage that banks are essential for the smooth handling of overseas trade and investment transactions .
16 Before you switch on , set questions to focus students on whatever you want to highlight at that stage .
17 The anxieties of some UK companies over the reluctance of UK banks to participate at this stage were assuaged with the early November announcement of a meduium-term facility worth about £700 million ( $190 million ) to be extended to Kuwait by the UK government .
18 Commenting on the assassination in its editorial of May 21 The Hindu stated that it was " difficult to assert at this stage if …
19 The guests were never less than courteous to one another , but for all that , a rather tense atmosphere , characterized largely by distrust , seemed to prevail at this stage .
20 In this book we will be using verbal , informal descriptions rather than such a formal language for two reasons ; ( a ) these languages define more detail than we usually wish to consider ; and ( b ) they describe complete computers , whereas we wish to look at any stage at a particular aspect of a number of computers .
21 Moreover , if only a limited number of more senior places are available , very able corporals and subalterns will get tired of waiting for promotion to sergeant and captain respectively , and will be inclined to leave at that stage .
22 One concern is why Cyril Ramaphosa , Frank Chikane , Beyers Naude and Albertina Sisulu were never called to testify at any stage of the trials connected with the murders of Stompie Moeketsi or Dr Asvat .
23 The effects upon the services with which this book is concerned and upon the behaviour of local government are hard to predict at this stage .
24 Or was it possible for one individual to be in the position of a net ‘ receiver ’ for some considerable time because of an expectation that they would be able to reciprocate at some stage in the future ?
25 So I , and , and to be honest I think that 's what we ought to do at this stage ,
26 Erm sorry about this , but er it 's a sort of a chore we have to do at this stage .
27 But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen .
28 Scots fail to qualify for latter stages
29 And a spokeswoman for trainer Toby Balding confirmed : ‘ Morley Street is likely to run at this stage . ’
30 The the documents that my learned friend and I think would be most useful to your Lordship to read at this stage would be pages one seven eight four two five .
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