Example sentences of "be [adv] the [num ord] stage " in BNC.

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1 " Being in love " and " being loved " are naturally the next stages .
2 National data on the use of each part of the service by age and sex , married persons and unmarried persons , is used as the basis of these weightings , but they are only the first stage .
3 However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion .
4 Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty .
5 The basis of this approach is the belief that the response which a subject makes is not an immediate outcome of sensory stimulation but results from a number of processes which occur over time , stimulation of the sensory receptors being only the first stage in a series of events .
6 That 's only the first stage .
7 ‘ Volatility is only the first stage in measuring risk .
8 But that is only the first stage , the negative side of the matter .
9 Getting the enquiries procedure right is only the first stage in setting up a good media relation programme .
10 This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection .
11 Assigning children to levels within attainment targets is only the first stage in the ranking of children and schools which the government sought to establish .
12 But this is only the first stage of WEN 's campaign , and one element of the findings in The Sanitary Protection Scandal .
13 It has erm at the last European Election it had five hundred and twenty two thousand voters , so picking the candidate is really the first stage on s trying to get amongst five hundred and twenty two thousand voters .
14 There is disintegration when no common morality is observed , and history shows that the loosening of moral bonds is often the first stage of disintegration , so that society is justified in taking the same steps to preserve its moral code as it does to preserve its Government and other essential institutions .
15 Incidentally it should be remembered that the first picture ( Fig. 22.3 ) is actually the second stage of the sequence , because this pattern is itself the consequence of an instability that occurs only if the Rayleigh number is high enough ( Sections 22.2 , 22.3 ) ; however the first stage could only be represented by a picture which was ‘ a perfect and absolute blank ’ .
16 The sequence begins ( as with Hegel ) with the establishment of the first object relation , which is therefore the first stage towards eventual self-consciousnesses .
17 Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures .
18 But this was only the last stage in the process .
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