Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though these kinds of ’ fishing raids ’ take place in such factories at this time of the year , it is believed that this particular raid has marked the beginning of a new home office policy . |
| 2 | If we do the opposite , and write melodies which are always changing , we will find that by the end of the melody we will have forgotten the beginning . |
| 3 | The rector , having made a beginning , stuck to his guns manfully . |
| 4 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |
| 5 | It would have had a beginning in the big bang , about fifteen billion years ago , and it would come to an end for a star that collapsed and for anything that fell into the black hole the collapsing star left behind . |
| 6 | This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God . |
| 7 | As experimental and theoretical evidence mounted , it became more and more clear that the universe must have had a beginning in time , until in 1970 this was finally proved by Penrose and myself , on the basis of Einstein 's general theory of relativity . |
| 8 | But what might have marked the beginning of a distinguished career in Plessey was cut short when he was headhunted . |
| 9 | The rally , which was to have featured all the razzmatazz of an American political campaign , with drum majorettes , a motor cavalcade , bands and balloons , was to have marked the beginning of the ruling National Party 's drive to recruit coloured , black and Indian members . |
| 10 | You 've missed the beginning of the full supporting feature … |
| 11 | no , not yet , I 've seen the beginning where he set up the and that |
| 12 | His spontaneous reports in later sessions suggested that he had made a beginning in that direction , and had even begun to apply , with colleagues outside the group and with the boy 's mother , the skills used in the group . |
| 13 | Lost in her own thoughts , she had missed the beginning of the conversation . |
| 14 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 15 | They had reached the beginning of Western Road and were passing the Cork & Muskerry Railway station . |
| 16 | They had reached the beginning of the wood and still neither had spoken . |
| 17 | IN THE days that followed the stockmarket crash of October 1987 , investors dusted off their economic histories and recalled that the Wall Street crash of October 1929 had marked the beginning of a ten-year , worldwide depression . |
| 18 | It is likely that the passage has been abbreviated : the compilers have preserved the beginning and the end of his discussion of the effect of the alienation of an object bequeathed . |
| 19 | Now , hopefully , I have reached the beginning of appreciation . |
| 20 | In 1914 , just after the commencement of the First World War that many have suggested marked the beginning of the end of the old order in British society , Dicey wrote an extended introduction to the eighth edition of Law of the Constitution . |