Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than a second elapses between the two stages . |
| 2 | It may be argued , though I think with difficulty , that there is no important difference between the modern welfare state and the nineteenth-century ‘ night watchman ’ state , in so far as it is still an instrument of bourgeois domination ; or that the welfare state — involving a high level of government intervention in the economy , the provision of extensive social services and a considerable degree of national economic planning — corresponds with a new stage in the development of capitalism , which may be called ‘ organized capitalism ’ ; or finally , that the welfare state is a particular stage in a general trend toward collectivism , inspired mainly by the labour movement , and from this aspect can be regarded as a transitional stage on the way to socialism . |
| 3 | He would presumably have argued that the conservative variant of the normativist style lies in the theological stage of society , and the liberal variant is rooted in the metaphysical stage . |
| 4 | The kind of descriptive approach already widespread in schools — and for which there is plenty of published material available — needs from an early stage to be supplemented in an important way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In normal embryos this surface polarity is indicative of a profound reorganization of the embryo which develops at the 8-cell stage and is thought to underlie the process of cell divergence ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | Consider , however , what happens during the intermediate stages of fracture . |
| 8 | This occurs as an intermediate stage between a single frequency spectrum ( similar to Fig. 24.8(a) ) and a continuous one representing chaotic fluctuations ( similar to Fig. 24.8(d) ) . |
| 9 | The fire Research Station 's fire Detection Department built a full sized hotel corridor and , for the first time , has monitored what happens in the early stages of a typical hotel fire . |
| 10 | But this directed growth of capillaries , known as angiogenesis , also occurs in the early stages of cancer . |
| 11 | ( A very similar performance occurs in the concluding stages of a variety of Sinhalese rituals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | Cell numbers are easily counted up until compaction occurs at the 8-cell stage when cell outlines become obscure . |
| 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 | And with the think-tank of close friends who form Paul 's magic circle , the idea grows into a new stage or television trick or illusion . |
| 17 | After all , the term ‘ active citizens ’ was invented by the Abbé Sieyes in the early stages of the French Revolution . |
| 18 | This leads to the second stage of the argument , to the effect that disobeying the law undermines its authority , and is therefore contrary to the obligation to support just institutions . |
| 19 | Obtaining office copy entries ( as opposed to furnishing merely a copy of the registered title ) is advisable as it reveals at an early stage whether or not there is a second charge which may not have been disclosed to the husband 's solicitors . |
| 20 | It is not worthwhile chasing non-replies any further for experience shows that where little interest exists at the preliminary stages , the possibility of completing a deal will be small . |
| 21 | Perhaps it acts at the lysosomal stage of the entry process outlined by Simons . |
| 22 | His production opens with a darkened stage , lit only by a spotlight on a tiny , fragile rod puppet . |
| 23 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 24 | It is a known fact that the treatment a puppy receives in the early stages of its life , even from weaning , will influence its whole future behaviour . |
| 25 | The procedure consists of the following stages : |
| 26 | As she gradually picks up speed and moves towards the countryside she enters into the next stage of her journey . |
| 27 | MIGHTY Scurlogue Champ strides onto the smallest stage of his career at Mildenhall on Saturday . |
| 28 | An alternative theory is that all crime rises in the initial stages of industrialization and urbanization , but that thereafter violence falls while property offences continue to increase . |
| 29 | Pam Nelson may not yet be a household name but if this young American progresses in the same manner as previous Pilkington Glass U.21 Champions Steffi Graf , Arantxa Sanchez , Jana Novotna and Manuela Maleeva , then it will not be long before her name appears in the latter stages of the world 's leading tournaments . |
| 30 | This is very different from the situation that obtains in the early stages of language learning . |