Example sentences of "[prep] the first stage [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While one cuts with the peat iron [ Tarisker ] , the other stands catching the foot-square slabs of wet peat which are thrown flat for the first stage of drying . |
| 2 | The Italian government approved on April 27 the lifting from May 14 of all remaining controls on capital movements , several weeks before the deadline of July 1 as required for the first stage of EMU to be implemented [ see also pp. 37132 ; 36598 ] . |
| 3 | During the first stages of pregnancy , the growing foetus is extremely vulnerable and so early diagnosis , using a home pregnancy test , can be essential to its health development — especially if you need to improve your health and fitness . |
| 4 | Compared with the compensation payments introduced during the first stage of price liberalization , these went up from 750 lei to 2,100 lei per month for workers , and from 400 lei to 1,470 lei for pensioners , while there were also increases in child benefits , maternity benefits and student grants . |
| 5 | The experimental subjects acquired the CR only slowly when trained in context A , the context in which the light had been presented during the first stage of habituation training . |
| 6 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 7 | In order to establish the appropriate conditioned responses ( or expectancies ) during the first stage of training , the subjects would have to attend to and discriminate those features that distinguish A from C and those that distinguish B from C. Any plausible mechanism capable of allowing a subject to do this would also endow the subject with an enhanced ability to discriminate between A and B because it would involve the animal in coming to respond to the distinctive features of each of the three stimuli . |
| 8 | Briefly , they showed that the use of continuous electronic fetal heart rate monitoring caused higher rates of medical intervention including caesarean section during the first stage of labour and instrumental vaginal delivery during the second . |
| 9 | This afternoon , doctors at a Bristol hospital disclosed that a baby there had died after the mother used a pool during the first stage of labour . |
| 10 | ELECTRONIC tagging of remand prisoners , seen as the first stage towards plans to introduce community-based punishments , was attacked by probation officers yesterday . |
| 11 | Fearing the introduction of caucus politics as the first stage toward installation of a socialist regime , disaffected Liberals were drawn into the camp of the Tories ; together they formed the Municipal Alliance , and by skilful reassertion of discourses of municipal activity embodied in incorporation assimilated the challenge of labour and took power in 1900 . |
| 12 | The district general hospital ( DGH ) units carried through the first stage of devolution of services . |
| 13 | At this stage , in Britain as in other cattle-rearing countries , the cattle tended to be regional types rather than formal breeds , but by 1750 there was a recognisable regional distribution by coat colour and pattern in Britain — one of the first stages in breed development . |
| 14 | The response conditioned to A might generalize more to B as a result of the first stage of training ; or this training might reduce the extent to which generalization occurs to C ; or both of these effects could be occurring . |
| 15 | According to the Archangelsk-based newspaper , Volna , Moscow radio reported that the units would be financially independent , funding themselves in part by collecting titanium scrap " which is littering the entire tundra landscape from Mezen to the Yamal and beyond , in the form of wreckage from the first stages of rockets launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome " . |
| 16 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 17 | Was the speaker trying to tell me something or was I in the first stages of paranoia ? |
| 18 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 19 | In the first stage of word recognition , cohort reduction occurs as early sensory information defines the word-initial cohort . |
| 20 | In order to distinguish the conditioned response ( CR ) of the test stage from that acquired in the first stage of discrimination training , the nature of the reinforcer was changed , from appetitive to aversive . |
| 21 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 22 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 23 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 24 | Since structural information was only partially contained in the text captured by the keyboarding contractor , structural markup has been generated and inserted by the computer system in the first stage of processing . |
| 25 | constitute a challenge to interference theory only to the extent that this theory is constrained to predict that the aversive CR acquired in the first stage of training should fail to transfer fully to a new test context . |
| 26 | It seems possible that the extensive exposure to the stimuli experienced by the experimental subjects in the first stage of training might have resulted in a latent inhibition effect that would obscure any other source of transfer . |
| 27 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |
| 28 | Already , since the first stage of price liberalization in November 1990 , the cost of living had soared by over 50 per cent . |
| 29 | An invoice raised in April 1991 related to the first stage of contract payment on a verbal order given by the customer in March 1991 , ie the first payment was due from the customer on approval of the order . |
| 30 | Work on the first stage in MURRAYFIELD 's redevelopment , building stands to replace the north and south terracing , will begin immediately after Scotland 's final home match in the Five Nations ' Championship , the game against France on March 7 . |