Example sentences of "[art] last stages " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the Lebanese parliament , whose members are meeting in Taif a year after their failure to elect a president led to the creation of rival Lebanese cabinets , is itself in the last stages of life . |
| 2 | In the last stages of composition , after the destruction of the ‘ society ’ names , ‘ De Bailhache , Fresca , Mrs. Cammel ’ , Eliot amended his original version , adding some lines which surely came as a result of his meeting with Peters : |
| 3 | These points are well illustrated in John Warton 's narration of his talk with a woman in the last stages of consumption , to whom he gives the name ‘ Mary Barton ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Sarah Perkins took her sister home in the last stages of consumption ; how I sympathized with her distress ! |
| 5 | One was a tall , large-featured and forbidding man , dressed in black velvet , and the other was a masked lady , obviously in the last stages of bearing a child . |
| 6 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 7 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 8 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 9 | The other girls followed suit , and the waitress , after a moment 's hesitation , wrung in turn the outstretched hands before hurrying off to attend to the needs of a customer who , to judge by his impatience , was in the last stages of starvation . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the firing from the walls was undiminished , and the last stages of trenching had proved extremely costly . |
| 11 | However , their most striking innovation is in the way work is now organised in the last stages of the production process in the body shop . |
| 12 | Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse . |
| 13 | Certainly , it is common to lose all track of time in labour ; the intensity of the last stages seem to take place in another dimension . |
| 14 | It is fruitful to recognise the responsibility people have for their own lives , and the material circumstances in which those lives have been lived , in considering the resources with which a person enters the last stages of life . |
| 15 | Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works . |
| 16 | The threat was sufficient to alarm the king 's sister Adela , and she warned the king , who was now in the last stages of planning his final great attack on his brother 's duchy of Normandy . |
| 17 | ‘ The last stages of the Third Battle of Ypres ’ , John Buchan was to write , ‘ were probably the muddiest combats ever known in the history of war . ’ |
| 18 | The product is now in the last stages of beta testing with 19 customers chosen by BT , and Phonelink chief executive Trevor Burke claims there has been a 95% take-up rate . |
| 19 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 20 | In December , while in the last stages of composition , he stayed at home because of the London fog , and at the beginning of the new year he took to his bed for a week with a slight chill . |
| 21 | But he was now in the last stages of his infirmity . |
| 22 | What we might be seeing on the extreme right is not the last stages of antisemitism , but its continuation in a climate without Jewish issues , or , to be precise , without the son of Jewish issues which can mobilize the support which the extreme right seeks . |
| 23 | However , such groups possess a wider significance if they are seen either as representing the last stages of a long , discreditable history , or as one of the means by which this history is transmitted into the future . |
| 24 | Whilst it may be possible for certain hoists and lifts to be provided with dual controls and to be relied upon to assist in the initial stages of smouldering fire or even the last stages of salvage and reinstatement , and whilst the provision of a portable extinguisher could be regarded as standard , the dangers involved in aligning the confines of a lift or cage to a developing fire in the only manner by which it could be used effectively are sufficiently great to warrant special mention when consideration is being given to emergency planning . |
| 25 | With the installation of the engines , Bob MacSmythurs , the chief engineer , had gone down to Lowestoft to stand by the ship during the last stages of installing the complex machinery . |
| 26 | A number of teams deserve a special mention for their tenacity in teaching the last stages . |
| 27 | In the final stages of the journey from river mud to glittering metal , gold is treated to remove the last stages of Garrimpo mercury , then it becomes pure , but not innocent . |
| 28 | He was longing , as he told Jardine , to be back among his beloved lyre-birds , by now in the last stages of their extraordinary seasonal plumage . |
| 29 | This included transplant surgery and medical treatment for AIDS ( but not " comfort care " for those in the last stages of the illness ) . |
| 30 | Certainly , the appearance and spreading of turbulent spots , described below as the last stages of transition , are commonly observed in uncontrolled transition ( e.g. Fig. 17.18 ) . |