Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [art] [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If , in a given species , animals at a particular stage of their lives habitually live with relatives , then selection will favour altruistic acts that cause a net increase in the number of the relevant genes , whether or not an animal can recognize its own relatives . |
| 3 | The department is therefore able to impose central , corporate views , on to the business units at an early stage . |
| 4 | Shareholders ' funds at the half-year stage stood at £34.3m , equivalent to a book value per share of £2.17 . |
| 5 | The audit is essentially aimed at identifying and rectifying procedural flaws , and not at the individual 's performance , although realistically this may feature when considering efficiency aspects at a later stage . |
| 6 | This may require some kind of additional structure ( at least temporarily ) whilst the system is on-line , until the trie can be re-built with the new words at a later stage . |
| 7 | The public observations and published documents of Government inspectors did not point to falling standards in basic subjects at the primary stage . |
| 8 | The lawyer 's time will add to costs and is unlikely to result in time savings at a later stage . |
| 9 | Close on Paul 's heels at the half-way stage was Swindon based Tom Fuller who had introduced £1,771,500 . |
| 10 | Second , the affirmation of the right was to ensure that the unification of different peoples was voluntary , part of a well-founded democracy and ensuring the equality of nations at a particular stage in Russian history , the bourgeois revolution . |
| 11 | Property group London & Metropolitan cut losses at the half-way stage to £4.4m against £15m last time . |
| 12 | Obvious examples are travelling or living abroad , the husband having to be away for long periods , having to relocate , changing children 's schools at an awkward stage in their career , having to do a lot of company entertaining . |
| 13 | The rest is up to the children , music included ; as Runswick and music director Terry Edwards discovered on their rounds of the schools at an earlier stage in the project , the teachers had only to supervise , rarely to prompt or invent-solid preparation indeed for the GCSE 's new emphasis on composition . |
| 14 | HCIMA expressed doubts at the consultative stage about the lack of hotel and catering GNVQs , but little further information is yet available . |
| 15 | Moreover , combinations of factors can conspire to turn vertical effects into horizontal effects , for example the combination of vertical linkages and the necessity for licences at the retail stage ( as in the supply of beer ) . |
| 16 | Virtually all such products were imported , and many were expensive and beyond the reach of countries at an early stage of economic development . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So the latter can have important repercussions at a later stage . |
| 19 | The breakdown of compost can be greatly hastened by the introduction of brandlings at the right stage . |
| 20 | Division of the sediment into two fractions at an early stage is therefore recommended . |
| 21 | Political movements and ideological divisions are to be understood in terms of the conflict between the major classes at a given stage of social development . |
| 22 | His first triumph in Europe ramins the No 1 aim once he can keep his game together for all four rounds , instead of going off the rails at a crucial stage . |
| 23 | The heat stimulus was provided by a stainless steel block ( contact area , 3cm 2 ) heated in a boiling water bath and positioned on the tip of the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 of seedlings at the two-leaf stage . |
| 24 | In order to do this , we classify the adverts into types " aimed at women " and " aimed at men " ( we could instead have classified them as " television " versus " magazine " or " Italian " versus " British " , etc. ; and if our first attempt to classify gets us nowhere we might try one or more of these alternatives at a later stage ) . |
| 25 | This was partly because of the structure of the lexicon used which enabled efficient storage and search , and cut off non-productive alternatives at an early stage . |
| 26 | The emphasis on costs at a given stage of the life-cycle may well depend more upon the product strategy — i.e. whether it is a cost-leadership or differentiated-product strategy . |
| 27 | We are not saying that taxpayers should not be able to claw back some of the costs at a later stage , but the carer 's position should be protected . |
| 28 | The principal objective of the new scheme , which does not apply to Legal Aid cases , is to encourage settlement of costs at an early stage . |
| 29 | Like all screening programmes endoscopic surveillance of the duodenum in FAP patients seeks to detect treatable lesions at an asymptomatic stage and this has been achieved . |
| 30 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |