Example sentences of "[was/were] at this stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It was at this stage that tanks and troops wielding guns and naked bayonets were introduced and gunfire was heard . |
| 4 | Lords Justices Balcombe and Beldam ruled that the mother , aged 25 , was at this stage entitled to block local authority plans to put her daughter , aged 5 ½ , and her three-year-old son up for adoption . |
| 5 | It was at this stage that he sought to qualify the right of national self-determination even in the colonies — ‘ to support savages and barbarians ’ , he wrote in Neue Zeit , ‘ who resist the penetration of capitalist civilization would be romantic ’ . |
| 6 | There was at this stage no general right to self-determination . |
| 7 | It was at this stage that the intensive training in navigation paid off . |
| 8 | It was at this stage that Reg and I realised that David Stirling was suffering from one of his frequent migraine attacks … . |
| 9 | It was at this stage that there was an interruption , a quite noisy one as the Master of Dunbar put in a shouting appearance , three-year-old George , Agnes 's son , his nurse in full cry behind him , a couple of deer-hounds also in attendance . |
| 10 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 11 | The parents ' sense of disempowerment was at this stage complete . |
| 12 | It was at this stage of the process that the perception of the fieldworker as ‘ alright ’ became important . |
| 13 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |
| 14 | It was at this stage that the role of the DCSL became particularly important . |
| 15 | He was at this stage in his life too disinclined to indulge in retrospection and perhaps too self-absorbed to consider his mother 's life and death in the context of his own life . |
| 16 | Liz was at this stage engrossed by the dramatic , blinding , smoky disaster of her own marriage , which after only six weeks managed to transform herself and Edgar into mockeries of their former selves , loud puppets mouthing insults on an unreal battlefield . |
| 17 | It was at this stage that the meaning of ‘ electric field ’ in classical electromagnetic theory reached a high degree of clarity and precision . |
| 18 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 19 | The Agrarian Reform also , inevitably , provided the already hostile sectors of the US press and Congress with specific ammunition , and it was at this stage that the cries of ‘ Communist ’ first began to be heard . |
| 20 | Zimmerman points out that ‘ it was at this stage that Soviet authorities permitted , tolerated or encouraged Marshal Sokolovskii and his colleagues to publish an awesome picture of American military might ’ ( Voennaia Strategiia , 1962 ) and that ‘ wide dissemination was given to statements declaring that never before had imperialism been so strong ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 192 ) . |
| 21 | It was at this stage of my search that I started to find lead weights . |
| 22 | It was at this stage that the joint approach with the researcher working as a ‘ professional friend ’ or ‘ supporter ’ , coming more objectively at the information and without any feeling of being threatened , was found to be most useful . |
| 23 | It was at this stage that came into her own , having learnt the skills of her five previous bosses ( and noted their shortcomings ) to such a degree she was a competent transport manager in her own right . |
| 24 | The Council was at this stage receiving not only reports from its committees but also the reports of visiting parties . |