Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the commonest stone vessels were those that were compact in form , like birds ' nests , but more ambitious forms were attempted even from the beginning , such as the circular pot-lids with handles in the form of a reclining dog , made , apparently in some numbers , at Mochlos in around 2500 BC . |
| 2 | The directives were brought in at the beginning of the year in response to EC directives . |
| 3 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 4 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 5 | And if we look at the implications er West Yorkshire which were touched on in the beginning of this part of the debate . |
| 6 | When the men were starved out at the beginning of April 1890 and the union had capitulated , the organisation celebrated its triumph by refusing to take back men who wore the union " button " and required those who were re-employed to sign " The Document " , undertaking to work harmoniously with non-unionists and imported labour . |