Example sentences of "[pers pn] has reached the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When periods finally stop , she has reached the change of life menopause .
2 Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ .
3 she has reached the stage where she feels much more inclined to strike out to underline her independence .
4 COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE — The number of children ( live-born babies ) a woman has borne by the time she has reached the end of the childbearing age .
5 The guru or the spiritual director will have to tell the novice when he has reached the limits of his ability .
6 By the time he has reached the age of 17 or 18 , however , a new decision has to be made .
7 Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . "
8 He has reached the bodies now .
9 Therefore , you will be asked to continue using the wheelchair to move the patient around until the physiotherapist is sure that he has reached the point where he can walk correctly and safely .
10 He has reached the point where he thinks he is so right that he has in fact ceased to develop .
11 Apart from the numerous psycho-sexual problems which afflict humanity , the man may see himself and be regarded by society as having reached a stage of decline ; dissatisfaction with career may culminate in the forties with the realisation that he has reached the end of progress in this respect ; and so on .
12 ‘ I think Neil Kinnock will probably stand down quite soon , ’ said Mr George Galloway , MP for Glasgow Hillhead : ‘ He has reached the summit of where he can take the British Labour Party . ’
13 It has reached the viewers and , perhaps more importantly , its success has guaranteed its subscribers , the ITV companies , more than enough revenue to match their subscriptions to the service .
14 I am sure that the 7 million or so patients who will benefit from nurses being able to prescribe will be grateful that he has chosen a Bill which will certainly be passed and will certainly — once it has reached the statute book and is implemented — have practical benefits for that many patients .
15 The period which elapses until a product at the limit of the release specification at the time of manufacture , changes until it has reached the limit of the check specification , is the minimum shelf-life ; the product which is close to the nominal value at the time of manufacture will continue to comply with the check specification for longer than this .
16 It has reached the point that our enthusiastic consumption has become more of a risk than an asset .
17 The latter specification defines a satisfactory product ; it is only when the product has undergone change to the extent that it no longer complies fully with the check or shelf-life specification that it has reached the end of its shelf-life .
18 Generally speaking it only pays to change a system when it has reached the end of its economic life — usually 20 years .
19 ( A space tells BBCBASIC(Z80) that it has reached the end of the word . )
20 END tells BBCBASIC(Z80) that it has reached the end of the program .
21 What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence .
22 But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 .
23 But of all of these , Integrated Pollution Control is the only significant measure aimed at preventing pollution at source rather than dealing with it once it has reached the environment .
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