Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at [det] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 2 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 3 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 4 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
| 5 | Do n't tell me something 's turned up at this stage to stop Cris getting away ? ’ |
| 6 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 7 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 8 | The incentive aspect may be brought in at this stage to define a reward for the contractor for finishing on or before the contract completion date and compensation to the customer for finishing late . |
| 9 | Mains electricity was supposedly going to be brought in at some stage , but God only knew when that would be . |
| 10 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 11 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 12 | The research department is often involved again at this stage when the advertising starts to appear in order to judge its effectiveness . |
| 13 | In this context , in a more general sense , a return to a more convergent exchange rate policy within Europe , providing as it does a background of stability to encourage exporters , would be welcomed again at some stage in the future . |
| 14 | The difficulty of transfecting bloodstream form trypanosomes ( 22 ; DJ unpublished data ) may also be circumvented using this approach , in order to study the function and regulation of genes which are expressed only at this stage of the life cycle . |
| 15 | So when you run to get it started off , you have all your uranium fuel rods in the reactor and you 're control rods and it 's it 's shut down at that stage okay , then you gradually start withdrawing the control rods , and see what 's happening . |