Example sentences of "be only the [num ord] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 3 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That 's only the first stage . |
| 6 | ‘ Volatility is only the first stage in measuring risk . |
| 7 | But that is only the first stage , the negative side of the matter . |
| 8 | Getting the enquiries procedure right is only the first stage in setting up a good media relation programme . |
| 9 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But this is only the first stage of WEN 's campaign , and one element of the findings in The Sanitary Protection Scandal . |
| 12 | Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures . |
| 13 | But this was only the last stage in the process . |