Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 2 | I was at one stage tempted to forgo my chance to contribute to it because of the fascinating speeches of Members representing inner and outer London constituencies as they struggled to find some fairness , justice or logic in the banding system . |
| 3 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 4 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 5 | It was at that stage that I too decided that it was beyond any rational explanation . |
| 6 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 7 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 8 | Peter does n't ’ And it was at this stage that someone else said , ‘ But Peter would n't like it , ’ and some little woman , who I 'd thought until that moment was a nun , said , ‘ Oh , fuck Big Petie . ’ |
| 9 | It was at this stage that tanks and troops wielding guns and naked bayonets were introduced and gunfire was heard . |
| 10 | It was at this stage that he sought to qualify the right of national self-determination even in the colonies — ‘ to support savages and barbarians ’ , he wrote in Neue Zeit , ‘ who resist the penetration of capitalist civilization would be romantic ’ . |
| 11 | It was at this stage that the intensive training in navigation paid off . |
| 12 | It was at this stage that Reg and I realised that David Stirling was suffering from one of his frequent migraine attacks … . |
| 13 | It was at this stage that there was an interruption , a quite noisy one as the Master of Dunbar put in a shouting appearance , three-year-old George , Agnes 's son , his nurse in full cry behind him , a couple of deer-hounds also in attendance . |
| 14 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 15 | It was at this stage of the process that the perception of the fieldworker as ‘ alright ’ became important . |
| 16 | It was at this stage that the role of the DCSL became particularly important . |
| 17 | It was at this stage that the meaning of ‘ electric field ’ in classical electromagnetic theory reached a high degree of clarity and precision . |
| 18 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 19 | The Agrarian Reform also , inevitably , provided the already hostile sectors of the US press and Congress with specific ammunition , and it was at this stage that the cries of ‘ Communist ’ first began to be heard . |
| 20 | Zimmerman points out that ‘ it was at this stage that Soviet authorities permitted , tolerated or encouraged Marshal Sokolovskii and his colleagues to publish an awesome picture of American military might ’ ( Voennaia Strategiia , 1962 ) and that ‘ wide dissemination was given to statements declaring that never before had imperialism been so strong ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 192 ) . |
| 21 | It was at this stage of my search that I started to find lead weights . |
| 22 | It was at this stage that the joint approach with the researcher working as a ‘ professional friend ’ or ‘ supporter ’ , coming more objectively at the information and without any feeling of being threatened , was found to be most useful . |
| 23 | It was at this stage that came into her own , having learnt the skills of her five previous bosses ( and noted their shortcomings ) to such a degree she was a competent transport manager in her own right . |
| 24 | Adolescence was seen as ‘ critical ’ because it was during this stage of life ‘ when stimulating instruction , technical training and well-directed guidance in matters of conduct and personal hygiene are often most needed and , if wisely given , most helpful towards healthy living and self-control ’ . |
| 25 | It was upon that stage that the United Kingdom entered ; and the view of European law in this regard has in no wise been modified to accommodate traditional United Kingdom notions of sovereignty . |
| 26 | He was at this stage in his life too disinclined to indulge in retrospection and perhaps too self-absorbed to consider his mother 's life and death in the context of his own life . |