Example sentences of "beginning [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is this decision which is taken to mark the beginning of the Hundred Years War .
2 In both England and France , at the beginning of the Hundred Years War , the command structures were broadly similar .
3 That event is usually seen as the beginning of the Thirty Years War .
4 Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason .
5 erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost .
6 Writing this in 1757 , at the beginning of the Seven Years War , Malachi Postlethwayt may have failed to prophesy the exact sequence of war and peace , but he perceived clearly enough the interactions between war , debt and taxation which largely determined the public policy of Hanoverian England .
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