Example sentences of "at the [adj] stage " in BNC.

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1 The Artisans and the main Aldeburgh club find themselves in separate halves of the draw at the semi-final stage to be played on June 27 at neutral venues .
2 On Sunday , he will have an important role in the final against a Galway side who stunned Tipperary at the semi-final stage .
3 Kinawley are now supremely fit , and they enhanced their championship credentials with victory over the double champions Enniskillen in the quarter-final , before overcoming Roslea at the semi-final stage .
4 Not surprisingly Galway boss Jarlath Cloonan has given a vote of confidence to the side that shocked Tipperary at the semi-final stage .
5 His earliest recollections of All Ireland semi-finals and finals was 1975 when his older brother Anthony played on the Derry side beaten by Dublin at the semi-final stage .
6 Tommy Dowens , the Su Ragazzi coach , is taking no chances on his team falling at the semi-final stage again .
7 Female subjects too are likely , as Gilligan says , to be left out of psychology at the theory-building stage .
8 Finings , a glutinous substance made from the bladder of the sturgeon , is added either at the conditioning stage or when the beer is in cask to fine or clear the beer .
9 The early divisions of the mouse embryo seem much more sloppy and between the 8- and 16-cell stages the surface of the clump of cells becomes smooth and at the 32-cell stage there is a single layer of cells enclosing some cells on the inside .
10 The gene is expressed throughout embryogenesis with an increase in the expression level between 3 and 10 h and a further increase at the hatching stage .
11 Northern blot analysis of pou [ c ] expression at 3 , 10 , 16 , 24 and 33 hours of development and at the hatching stage ( lanes 1–6 ) .
12 At the present stage of development of US television , on the other hand , the schedules of the majority viewing channels ( and this is of course complicated by the much wider dissemination of cable ) are stripped in a way which concentrates particular genres and subgenres within the same time-slot : the competition is directed quite blatantly at the same demographic group or taste constituency , and , characteristically , for the network viewer , the choice is within genres and subgenres rather between them .
13 At the present stage of scientific development , it is surely sad that a healthy human fetus should be destroyed merely because it is not of the sex the mother prefers .
14 Just why there are more calories in the human excreta following the intake of a high-fibre diet is less than fully understood at the present stage of scientific research .
15 ‘ I am convinced ’ , he wrote in 1905 , ‘ that … at the present stage of world politics , the British people can get anything they want if they put their backs into it . ’
16 At the present stage ’ , even the projection of conventional military power ‘ in distant regions ’ may fall below the threshold of war .
17 All of these are still very cumbersome to use at the present stage of development but there is no doubt that they will improve .
18 My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons :
19 Secondly , because to try the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. charges at the present stage would do inevitable damage to the defence of the applicant when the very grave charges relating to B.M.F.L. come to be heard .
20 As explained , this is C.N.L. 's only hope of acquiring these documents at the present stage .
21 As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project .
22 The communiqué , dated May 27 , reiterated Pyongyang 's past efforts to avoid formalizing a " permanent split " of the Korean peninsula through dual membership , but concluded that " we have no alternative but to enter the UN at the present stage as a step to tide over such temporary difficulties created by the South Korean authorities " .
23 to say that in fairness to them , so what we would respectfully submit is that your Lordship having assessed the damages and erm , together with interest other than court of protection costs that the figure which we had mentioned and , and adjourn the matter for consideration of a structured settlement erm and that 's the first figure erm , that , the , the second thing , is that there is money in court er we would ask for a direction of the balance of the money , the balance over and above the money in court which is an extra three hundred and six thousand , three hundred and forty pounds at the present stage be brought into court within a reasonable time which we would note is fourteen days , maybe the defendant would ask longer , we have n't discussed it .
24 Just as those who at the pre-school stage help children to learn to read know that a structured effort to consolidate all the skills connected with reading will be made in the primary school itself , so teachers in primary schools need to know what will be built on the skills , knowledge , interests and attitudes of the children whom they will pass on to the next stage .
25 The breakdown of compost can be greatly hastened by the introduction of brandlings at the right stage .
26 the very existence of any examination at 16+ ( whether GCE , CSE or a unified examination or examination system ) as opposed to a series of assessments at the right stage of development for the individual pupil is questionable because firstly sixteen has already ceased to be the date for leaving education for the majority of pupils , secondly employers look increasingly to school recommendations , college course experience , and examination expectations rather than evidence of ‘ O ’ Level/CSE achievements , and thirdly the Universities and Higher Education look for and stipulate ‘ A ’ Level achievements rather than ‘ O ’ Level evidence .
27 Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial .
28 One of the interesting discoveries about this evolutionary process is that a team operating at the skilful stage gets there via the formal stage .
29 then it may be appropriate for it to progress to operating at the skilful stage .
30 The simplest way to decide whether a collection of individuals ( a group ) will be sufficient or whether a genuine team operating at the skilful stage is necessary , is to look at the nature of the task to be tackled .
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