Example sentences of "go through a [adj] phase " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no mere figure of speech to say that an idea is ‘ born ’ ; an idea goes through a real phase of development , from conception to birth . |
| 2 | This is because your hair goes through a growing phase which lasts from three to five years , then a resting phase which lasts for three to four month before it falls out . |
| 3 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 4 | Russia is going through a critical phase which will determine its political future . |
| 5 | It may fill up very slowly and gradually , particularly where stress is constant , such as when work is over demanding , financial problems ca n't be overcome , or the children are going through a difficult phase . |
| 6 | For baby Jake and Sophie , who 's going through a faddy phase about eating , whole milk is the best choice . |
| 7 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
| 8 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |