Example sentences of "[pron] was at this stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was at this stage no general right to self-determination . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | It was at this stage that the intensive training in navigation paid off . |
| 6 | It was at this stage that Reg and I realised that David Stirling was suffering from one of his frequent migraine attacks … . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was at this stage of the process that the perception of the fieldworker as ‘ alright ’ became important . |
| 10 | It was at this stage that the role of the DCSL became particularly important . |
| 11 | It was at this stage that the meaning of ‘ electric field ’ in classical electromagnetic theory reached a high degree of clarity and precision . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It was at this stage of my search that I started to find lead weights . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |