Example sentences of "were at [art] [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assistant county planning officer Alfreda Thistlethwaite said negotiations between the National Trust and Government departments over buying the land were at a crucial stage . |
| 2 | With regard to the right hon. Gentleman 's earlier remarks about opting in , I suggest that he discusses that matter with his right hon. Friends who would have signed the treaty in full without waiting to see what the economic conditions were at a later stage . |
| 3 | The Indian authorities on Nov. 22 and 28 denied that US pressure had been brought to bear , maintaining that negotiations for the sale of a reactor were at a preliminary stage and would not contravene international law . |
| 4 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 5 | All were at the same stage of their career , applying for their first senior house officer post in a non-teaching hospital because applications to teaching hospitals usually require completion of a form . |
| 6 | Accountants Ernst & Young , which is handling the sale , said negotiations were at an advanced stage . |
| 7 | Plans were at an advanced stage when Hamnett , having vacillated for some time , phoned the BFC to say she had decided in favour of Paris after all . |
| 8 | Negotiations with the De Vere hotel group , which were at an advanced stage , have recently broken down and precipitated the receivership . |
| 9 | Firstly Burmin , the company exploring Croagh Patrick , were at an advanced stage of prospecting : the company had said it had found ‘ an extensive gold-bearing structure ’ and ‘ an economic deposit ’ . |
| 10 | Cable & Wireless said that the talks were at an early stage . |