Example sentences of "[adj] at the [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | McClure was in his usual brilliant form opening up a 7-1 lead after five ends and then extending that to 14-3 at the halfway stage . |
| 2 | For example , if continued family contact is in the child 's best interest , social workers should make sure at the matching stage that the proposed new parents really believe so too . |
| 3 | There were still celebrated Marxist historians , such as E. P. Thompson , Eric Hobsbawm , Christopher Hill , and John Saville , but they were all at the veteran stage , and there appeared to be no significant youthful successors , as their creed withered throughout eastern Europe . |
| 4 | Maltman is not playing in Lagos , but Perth 's Garry Harvey is also in the top ten at the halfway stage , though he had a disappointing 73 yesterday . |
| 5 | Ballesteros starts today nine adrift in joint fifth place , but his first victory in America 15 years ago came after he trailed by ten at the same stage , and that in the 1986 Monte Carlo Open he was seven behind with only one round to go and still triumphed . |
| 6 | Moreover , the oft-repeated statement by teachers that " children do n't understand Dewey Decimal Classification " has been consistently denied by librarians able to work with primary and middle-school pupils , let alone those at the secondary stage . |
| 7 | SEVEN sendings-off made it the season 's worst day for discipline and took the total to 50 , compared with 64 at the same stage last season . |
| 8 | Some universities , such as Cambridge and Nottingham , divide first degree courses into ‘ Part I ’ and ‘ Part II ’ , the former usually but not always occupying the first two years , with some transfer between subjects possible at the second stage . |
| 9 | Assumptions implicit in text books and other books designed for educational use , and in the examination system that is increasingly influential at the secondary stage of education . |
| 10 | In the end , the understandings we have offered here came about indirectly from the actual learning process itself and contact with the deaf community as much as from the direct questioning we felt necessary at the initial stage . |
| 11 | This compares with three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 . |
| 12 | This compares with around three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 and has led to criticism of the £15 million advertising campaign . |