Example sentences of "[be] at [det] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm sure if whether we 're at that stage or not . |
| 2 | They 'll want to spend time looking at equipment they ca n't afford or can only just run to and will be at some stage of agonising over whether to buy or not . |
| 3 | Thinking about the various stages you go through and then once you 've reached the level of department managers at , on a lot of issues you tend to be at this stage but it 's important to remember that a number of your staff may be down here somewhere . |
| 4 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 5 | Mr Kemp said : ‘ Given the scale and complexity of the closure programme , I think it is going as well for residents and staff as it could be at this stage . ’ |
| 6 | Mm she must be at this stage . |
| 7 | In the noisy gannetries the birds were at all stages of development . |
| 8 | They were at that stage of going out that was n't yet a Relationship . |
| 9 | We , on the other hand , were at that stage of life when we felt we could find time for anything that took our fancy . |
| 10 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 11 | Provided they have at least one year 's service with the University by the expected date of birth , or have at any time been eligible to receive full-rate Statutory Maternity Pay or were at any stage entitled to the benefits of a previous employer 's paid maternity leave scheme , women are eligible for 18 weeks maternity leave on full pay , followed by up to 22 weeks unpaid maternity leave . |
| 12 | I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out . |
| 13 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 14 | I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air . |
| 15 | In practice , however , the majority of employers that have equalised upwards ( i.e. instead of reducing the retirement age for men ) are at this stage allowing women the option to take their pension early without reductions , instead of obliging those already close to retirement to prolong their working life . |
| 16 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 17 | If you are at some stage asked to undertake tasks with which you are unfamiliar , your starting point should be to ascertain whether you are , impliedly , obliged to do what is wanted . |
| 18 | Most researchers are at some stage forced up against the inadequacy of the social class classification . |
| 19 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 20 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 21 | Have I hell ah going through the diary now , it 's at that stage , enjoy it ? |
| 22 | It 's at this stage that the work is most interesting and most difficult . |
| 23 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 24 | It 's at this stage that mercury comes into the picture . |
| 25 | The patchiness develops throughout the energy cascade ; as the eddies get smaller , so the fraction of the volume in which they are active decreases ( though the size of a patch is at each stage large compared with the corresponding eddy size ) . |
| 26 | It is at that stage in the design process that he has the greatest opportunity to explore , and the least number of constraints . |
| 27 | In university and polytechnic libraries the advanced instruction has to wait until the second and third years of undergraduate courses , because it is at these stages that the students work on sometimes quite specialized projects . |
| 28 | It is at these stages of the process that the professional judgement and experience of the assessor and her/his ability to exercise a range of analytic and negotiating skills is of fundamental importance . |
| 29 | It is at this stage of the hob that the one-man band plays the best music . |
| 30 | It is at this stage that we can perhaps be of most use by pointing out that that is mostly what grief is about . |