Example sentences of "[was/were] at [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the noisy gannetries the birds were at all stages of development . |
| 2 | In February 1989 a small number of Red Army Faction ( Rote Armee Fraktion — RAF ) prisoners began a hunger strike in protest at " isolation torture " in which 33 prisoners were at one stage taking part . |
| 3 | Both Iran and Iraq were Muslim countries , both were ripe for economic development , both had significant oil resources being exploited by foreign concessionaires ( they were at one stage to co-operate over the development of a small oilfield straddling the frontier near Kermanshah ) and both had restive Kurdish minorities . |
| 4 | They were at that stage of going out that was n't yet a Relationship . |
| 5 | We , on the other hand , were at that stage of life when we felt we could find time for anything that took our fancy . |
| 6 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 7 | Provided they have at least one year 's service with the University by the expected date of birth , or have at any time been eligible to receive full-rate Statutory Maternity Pay or were at any stage entitled to the benefits of a previous employer 's paid maternity leave scheme , women are eligible for 18 weeks maternity leave on full pay , followed by up to 22 weeks unpaid maternity leave . |
| 8 | Training programmes were at different stages of development , with the effect that staff interviewed had received on average eleven hours ' training in one area , with between five and six hours in the other districts . |
| 9 | G Those discussions were fitted into a regular CDP meeting which itself discussed ‘ polytechnic autonomy ’ , and in which a variety of views were recorded — the institutions were at different stages of development ; the CNAA had established national status and its degrees were accepted currency ; the CNAA was known to be giving serious attention to ways and means of giving greater freedoms to experienced colleges ; emphasis should not be placed on charters as such … . |
| 10 | I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out . |
| 11 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 12 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 13 | The VEC relented but , with such short notice , the DUC was able to obtain only one speaker , Dr Robert Blackith , a zoologist from Trinity College , Dublin who was at that stage a veteran anti-nuclear speaker and campaigner . |
| 14 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 15 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 16 | The idea of an activity solely related to trying to raise money was at that stage an unpalatable one . |
| 17 | It was at that stage that I too decided that it was beyond any rational explanation . |
| 18 | In Hornby 's view , for example , Hatfield ‘ had a sort of Academic Board but it was not a very coherent one ’ , and yet Hatfield 's Academic Board was at that stage probably the farthest advanced in its production of a development plan . |
| 19 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 20 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 21 | Then my job was at one stage to clear payments and complaints . |
| 22 | There was at one stage prospecting starting in a locality about ten miles distant from the main area and there was , I think ( my figures may not be exactly right but they 're near enough right ) 276 landowners in the locality and 274 of them signed a petition to the prospecting companies to stay off their land . |
| 23 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 24 | Blue-and-gold European flags surrounded the stadium , Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony ( adopted as the European anthem ) was played at the opening and closing ceremonies , and the entire arena was at one stage lit up in EEC colours . |
| 25 | I was at one stage tempted to forgo my chance to contribute to it because of the fascinating speeches of Members representing inner and outer London constituencies as they struggled to find some fairness , justice or logic in the banding system . |
| 26 | One system specifically indicated was the Scud-B , which was at one stage used by both sides for attacks on each other 's capitals . |
| 27 | Recalling Thatcher fortunes when they were at a low ebb , Baroness Castle of Blackburn , as she now is , reminds us that Margaret Thatcher was at one stage rated the most unpopular Prime Minister in history a tag now attached to John Major . |
| 28 | Perhaps there was at some stage and I lost it . |
| 29 | Peter does n't ’ And it was at this stage that someone else said , ‘ But Peter would n't like it , ’ and some little woman , who I 'd thought until that moment was a nun , said , ‘ Oh , fuck Big Petie . ’ |
| 30 | It was at this stage that tanks and troops wielding guns and naked bayonets were introduced and gunfire was heard . |