Example sentences of "be only the [num ord] stage of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 2 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 3 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |
| 4 | But this is only the first stage of WEN 's campaign , and one element of the findings in The Sanitary Protection Scandal . |
| 5 | Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures . |