Example sentences of "[verb] at the start " in BNC.

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1 I had one suitcase , containing my things plus the knitted samples and garments and on several occasions this had to be unpacked at the start of the workshop and repacked at the end !
2 In 1976 he told listeners to the West Indies Test at the start of a new over , ‘ The bowler 's Holding , the batsman 's Willey . ’
3 ‘ But we seemed to freeze at the start , ’ conceded Nicholl .
4 It surfaced at the start of the eighteenth century in Paty 's Case ( 1704 ) 2 Ld Raym 1105 , where the fact that the officers of the House failed to make a sufficient particular return to the writ of Habeas Corpus was taken by Holt CJ ( dissenting , but prestigious ) to justify intervention by the courts .
5 It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook .
6 Cross the stream until you reach the path you used at the start and retrace your steps to the car park .
7 Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war
8 For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 .
9 Cell yields in successful reaggregate cultures showed a 2–5-fold increase over the lymphoid cell number added at the start of the culture .
10 Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account .
11 I mentioned at the start of this address that around the fire Joseph and Mary and their children would have gathered for fun and fellowship .
12 Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year .
13 To the unwanted social and psychological fall-out produced by the earlier hiding strategies are now added various kinds of physical discomfort : the ‘ psychosomatic ’ conditions we reviewed at the start of this chapter .
14 Many take the view that there should be timetabling at the start of legislation to enable it to be seen that Members are dealing with all parts of legislation from the word go .
15 For example , this occurred at the start of the new Vineyard churches in England , but there is of course biblical precedent in the case of the tent making Paul !
16 The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight .
17 If the biting happens at the start of the feed , use an ice cube or some soothing gel on his gums to deaden the pain of teething first .
18 It was always going to be a difficult fixture for lowly Millmead Reserves against high-fliers Shottermill Reserves , and the visitors ' hopes were totally dashed at the start when they could only field nine men .
19 Some people prefer to yell at the start of their movement to frighten their opponent and increase their own confidence .
20 Thus Gandalf says at the start that the Ring will ‘ possess ’ and ‘ devour ’ any creature who uses it , while Elrond later goes further and says ‘ The very desire of it corrupts the heart ’ ( I , 281 ) .
21 ‘ Cindy says at the start of the video ‘ watch it and then try it ’ , ’ says Tee Dobinson .
22 When the perinatal mortality rate was calculated on the basis of the hospital attended at the start of labour the crude perinatal mortality rate in hospital 1 ( 12.6/ 1000 deliveries ) was a third higher than that in hospital 3 ( 9.4/1000 deliveries ) .
23 Should be decided at the start of the game .
24 As Thorfinn had done at the start of his reign , in Fife .
25 However , the weakness of setting out to find a compromise is that each side assumes at the start that its own view is the one to be preferred .
26 Cooke was due to slip below Prean on the next list , which should appear at the start of the New Year , but unless there is a rapprochement between the player and the ETTA , whose chairman is Prean 's father John , the rankings will have lost much of their meaning .
27 a client disclaimer clarifying the firm 's involvement which will appear at the start of every Information memorandum which is issued ( see section 1103.2 ) ; and
28 The only thing he has done wrong is get injured at the start of the season . ’
29 Although the trigger for this phenomenon is unknown , hypobiosis occurs at the start of a prolonged dry season and permits the parasite to survive in the host as arrested L4 instead of maturing and producing eggs which would inevitably fail to develop on the arid pasture .
30 And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it .
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