Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [art] [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 2 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 3 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 4 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 5 | Similarly , the child fixated at the anal stage will develop an ‘ anal character ’ , whose most marked traits are said to be orderliness , parsimony and obstinacy . |
| 6 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 7 | Tommy Dowens , the Su Ragazzi coach , is taking no chances on his team falling at the semi-final stage again . |
| 8 | Needless to say , electronic interviewing remains at an early stage in its development . |
| 9 | Tax paid at an earlier stage is deducted to produce the net tax due at each stage . |
| 10 | Since living Nautilus does not have an ink sac , this must have been a protective device evolved at a later stage in cephalopod evolution . |
| 11 | However , the working out of these three dimensions in the undergraduate curriculum is bound to be rather different from their manifestation in the school curriculum because higher education comes at a different stage in the educational life-cycle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The blip in the graph occurs at a crucial stage of development in firms which until that point were among the fast growers , sharply reducing the number which move on to become medium and larger firms . |
| 14 | Patients who had repeated 24 hours pH monitoring at the second stage of the study were still taking omeprazole 40 mg/day but all other drugs were withheld for at least 48 hours beforehand . |
| 15 | Developmental evidence suggests that an attachment to the symbols of monarchy occurs at an early stage , well before sophisticated cost-benefit analyses of national revenue are possible ( Abramson and Inglehan , 1970 ) . |
| 16 | The sequence of modern physiotherapy treatment normally follows a pattern : the patient has to recover his ability to balance first and foremost ; then he has to recover his ability to transfer his weight from side to side ; standing balance is the next stage , accompanied by the ability to sit down from standing up , and to stand up from sitting ; selective movements using the affected arm and leg come next ; then he learns to make steps , followed by walking ; function in the upper limb ( arm ) and controlling it in order to make selective movements against gravity happens at a late stage ; the final rehabilitation task is to regain functional , detailed movements in the affected hand and foot . |
| 17 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 18 | The other safeguard arises at an earlier stage of the proceedings , and provides an additional protection for persons who are abroad and not able to be served with proceedings in this country in the usual way . |
| 19 | Getting into a shirt comes at a later stage , a sweater later still . |
| 20 | Cell numbers are easily counted up until compaction occurs at the 8-cell stage when cell outlines become obscure . |
| 21 | That is a matter for the House to decide at a later stage . |
| 22 | As I said both in my statement and in an earlier answer , we have the option to decide at a later stage , when others enter stage 3 , whether that is the right thing for this country to do . |