Example sentences of "at a [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , because those histories eventually facilitate a reversal in the object of analysis : at a certain stage it is no longer homosexuality , or the perversions as ordinarily understood , which need explaining , but ( among other things ) the classification of heterosexuality as the norm with homosexuality as its perverse other , and the splitting , displacements , and paranoia which accompany that division . |
| 2 | His old friend Barfield ruefully suggested that ‘ at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual animus taking stock of his moral faults … |
| 3 | At a certain stage in the evening Modigliani would decide to undress , unravelling the long red scarf he wore around his waist in theatrical fashion . |
| 4 | Transformation : E. coli at a certain stage of their growth cycle can , after treatment with chemicals such as calcium chloride or rubidium chloride , take up raw DNA ( for example , DNA purified in the laboratory ) and , if it contains appropriate sequences , will incorporate them into their own genomes . |
| 5 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 6 | In the years I have trained Rottweilers , I have always found there to be a barrier at a certain stage where the dog becomes stubborn . |
| 7 | A particular crisis , easily mistaken for a failure of nerve , overtakes Scottish writers at a certain stage in their careers . |
| 8 | If Winnicott 's image of the mirror-image is a valid one and what the baby needs at a certain stage is a reflection of a meaningful world in which she/he has some place , we are also back with perception and self-perception . |
| 9 | It is important that Compacts be designed with sufficient flexibility for those students who are failing at a certain stage , to negotiate re-entry and a further attempt at the goals . |
| 10 | But it , if if we wanted to change what we 've done already we we could at a certain stage have a level three , I mean I 've I 've ordered these books , you know mathematics level by level |
| 11 | This process may lead at a certain stage to the establishment of parties . " |
| 12 | At a certain stage in the analysis it becomes necessary not only to define each entity but also to record the relevant attributes of each entity . |
| 13 | Plus the favourite one , at a certain stage is is just to leave it off . |
| 14 | TV drama started with the BBC pointing a large camera at a small stage . |
| 15 | The two gall bladder perforations were caused by an inexperienced radiologist learning the technique and were managed conservatively by percutaneously draining the gall bladder for seven to 10 days to allow the perforation to heal and performing stone extraction at a second stage . |
| 16 | Our investigations are at a delicate stage … ’ |
| 17 | These negotiations are at a delicate stage and senior staff at the observatory preferred to make no official comment when contacted yesterday . |
| 18 | We understand an important pathophysiological mechanism underlying the sudden infant death syndrome to be a failure of respiratory control at a vulnerable stage of development . |
| 19 | The Policy Advisory Committee strongly advised that 13 should remain the age limit on the ground that girls of 12 are at a vulnerable stage of their lives , in particular because they are usually in their first year at a senior school and there is a risk that they will imitate the behaviour , including the sexual ways , of older girls . |
| 20 | US General Mark Clark passed up Ultra and duly paid the price , according to Winterbotham , by failing to take two objectives at a nasty stage of the Italian campaign . |
| 21 | The Afghan government claimed that artillery and infantry units of the Pakistan army had actually entered the battle at a decisive stage in late March . |
| 22 | Our next experiment tested directly whether C.C. 's visual system represents left-sided information at a preattentive stage of figure-ground segregation , but subsequently loses this information for the derived figures at an attentional stage . |
| 23 | It is recognised that it is almost impossible to correctly identify the characteristics of fast growers at a start-up stage but once a track record of two or three years data exists selection may be possible . |
| 24 | At a preschool stage children already require certain kinds of educational experiences , and quite a lot is now known as to what these are and how they should be delivered . |
| 25 | Indeed , as we have seen , such an infantile fixation at a pre-genital stage is an inevitable consequence of the very thing which explains the protests and the revolt against authority — the inability to transcend the phallic , Oedipal phase . |
| 26 | By identifying surpluses at a early stage in the planning process a firm is in a good position to plan the investment of such funds . |
| 27 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
| 28 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 29 | ‘ At a late stage , when you could n't change very much . |
| 30 | Learning handwriting with the non-dominant hand is difficult , so it usually comes at a late stage of recovery . |