Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] stage " in BNC.

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1 Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network .
2 These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator .
3 An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units .
4 Since that January night , Hillary has undergone the second stage of her transformation .
5 Now Michael has written a new stage play Brother Mine which , as the title suggests , tells of two brothers named Nicky and Freddie whose resemblance to the real thing , as we see as the piece is acted out for Alfred 's approval in the second act .
6 The TOP improvement team at Hunterston considering ways to extend GOMIS from a maintenance planning system to one capable of works resource planning across the station has used the second stage of the ‘ Brown Paper ’ technique described in last months edition of Scottish Nuclear News .
7 Of course the response which is likely to be made to such objections is that God works with human beings , so that only when human society has reached a certain stage of development does it become appropriate to ordain women .
8 Implementing the NHS reforms has reached a critical stage .
9 Ian ( 4.9 ) has reached a different stage of recognising shapes .
10 Work is progressing on clearing the years of growth and rubbish from the parapet of the bridge , and clearing the decking has reached an advanced stage .
11 It has become a recognisable stage in the growth process to use external consultants .
12 In looking at him , Maria sees an aspect of herself , Pierre sees the outcome of the jealousy — a death — and the reader witnesses an internal struggle that has found a public stage .
13 Congenital syphilis is rare in this situation because , by the time women get to child-bearing age , the disease has entered the late stage when transmission to the foetus is unlikely .
14 Digital Equipment Corp has announced the final stage of its 18-month European reorganisation programme .
15 Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage .
16 When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice .
17 The most intellectually satisfying explanation is that embodied in the doctrine of karma , in accordance with which the dead child may be regarded as having completed the final stage of a soul-life that , in previous incarnations , had almost earned its passage and , after one more brief sojourn , was able to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth .
18 Having completed the definitional stage of the theoretical investigation of natural monopoly , we turn now to two intertwined issues of control .
19 Had we had competent referees/linesman this season we would be up about 6 points … we would also probably have reached the mini-league stage last year cos Strach 's goal at Ibrox was another good goal in a very similar position to Rocky 's on Saturday .
20 In May 1647 they even prepared a draft peace-treaty in French ; and if this had been accepted by the other powers involved it would have marked an important stage in the establishment of the language as that of international relations , at least in western and central Europe .
21 With many aspects of flying , we need to have reached a certain stage or standard to be able to appreciate the problems , or to understand and take in the facts .
22 She had seen the initial stage of the assessment process as an opportunity to enhance her role in the decision-making but saw it as restricting her power .
23 As Mellowes said , negotiations had reached a tricky stage .
24 He had argued that Spain and Inca Peru had reached a parallel stage of social and cultural development at the point of the conquest , allowing the possibility of fusion .
25 In March he was summoned north by the news that the negotiations with Louis VII had reached a crucial stage .
26 He worried persistently about the poverty of his social life and bitterly complained : By June 1949 they had reached a further stage in their relationship .
27 The Rejects , who had reached the last stage without conceding a goal , were two down inside 20 minutes through Tommy Collins and Arwel Owen .
28 Negotiations for sale to a would-be bistro owner had reached an advanced stage but fell through eventually because he was unable to raise the necessary capital , and the owners are anxious for a quick sale .
29 Unlike the other seven Lilley Group businesses , Robison & Davison was not included in the receivership because the management buy-out process had reached an advanced stage prior to the Lilley collapse .
30 If we are not yet ready for such a grave ceremony , sooner or later we will be ; and if anyone thinks it macabre or mawkish , let them first read Derek Humphry 's moving account in his book Jean 's Way of how , when his wife had entered the terminal stage of bone cancer , he and she sat together over coffee and she took the pill which , with her full approval , he had obtained and kept safe for the occasion , and how she died peacefully in his arms .
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