Example sentences of "it be [prep] [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is at this stage that it becomes necessary to record a debt of gratitude to Headingley , for whom Ian had played at club level and who suggested he might be interested in coaching . |
| 32 | It is at this stage that they begin to appreciate the fruits of their labours . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | It was at that stage that I too decided that it was beyond any rational explanation . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . ’ |
| 39 | It was at this stage that tanks and troops wielding guns and naked bayonets were introduced and gunfire was heard . |
| 40 | 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 ’ . |
| 41 | It was at this stage that the intensive training in navigation paid off . |
| 42 | It was at this stage that Reg and I realised that David Stirling was suffering from one of his frequent migraine attacks … . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | It was at this stage of the process that the perception of the fieldworker as ‘ alright ’ became important . |
| 46 | It was at this stage that the role of the DCSL became particularly important . |
| 47 | It was at this stage that the meaning of ‘ electric field ’ in classical electromagnetic theory reached a high degree of clarity and precision . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 ) . |
| 51 | It was at this stage of my search that I started to find lead weights . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 ’ . |
| 55 | 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 . |