Example sentences of "[verb] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following extensive refurbishment , which includes shop floor reorganisation , a new lighting system and distinctive new green shelving , St George 's Gallery Books reopened at the beginning of the summer . |
| 2 | How else would the dreamer know at the beginning of the dream ( as he or she always does ) that something horrific was going to happen ? |
| 3 | They did not know at the beginning of the week how much they would bring home at the end . |
| 4 | yes , but they do know , le let's go back a bit further , but they do know at the beginning of the world most of it is water |
| 5 | At the National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) an early CAI program was designed at the beginning of the seventies in conjunction with the George Washington University Medical Centre . |
| 6 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 7 | The proclamation followed approval on Oct. 20-27 by the highest state body , the unicameral National Assembly ( Orzággyülés ) , elected for a five-year term , of a new transitional constitution and electoral law which introduced a multiparty democratic system ( hitherto the sole legal party had been the Hungarian Socialist Worker 's Party , reorganised at the beginning of October as the Hungarian Socialist Party ) . |
| 8 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 9 | The first of the themes I want to mention — a resolute opposition to the psychologism of Mill and others — is stressed at the beginning of each series of lectures . |
| 10 | Prices of electricity and gas rose at the beginning of 1991 , increasing retail prices by 12.7 per cent overall . |
| 11 | This cosmic ‘ year ’ was divided into four periods , each of 3,000 years , Zarathustra 's life occurring at the beginning of the final period . |
| 12 | The substance of the words of regulation 4 now appear at the beginning of the document on aircraft accident investigation produced by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) in the 13th Annex to its convention . |
| 13 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 14 | The block of flats was a new one and had not been fully occupied at the beginning of the war owing to the absence of people from London . |
| 15 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 16 | Another common error involving the match between subject and verb involves unrelated ( or so-called " dangling " ) participles , which occur when a participle used at the beginning of a sentence does not match with the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 17 | The three brothers had agreed to meet at the beginning of October , at Metz , where their father was buried . |
| 18 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |
| 19 | It is important to the final effect that , whatever the mixture , a curry powder is lightly fried at the beginning of the cooking to release its full flavour , and not merely stirred into a liquid . |
| 20 | It is important to establish at the beginning of a drama lesson/ project whether magic is to be allowed or not . |
| 21 | AS WE reported at the beginning of September , an increase in the fixed price agreed each year between Champagne 's growers and merchants seemed inevitable , putting further pressure on prices that are already affected by rising demand . |
| 22 | The little energy the muscles supply at the beginning of a stride is what we contribute to our locomotion ; gravity does most of the work for a walker . |
| 23 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 24 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 25 | Did any of you actually say at the beginning , if you have any questions while I 'm going along , please ask ? |
| 26 | This effectively marked the end of William Whitelaw 's service as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and he was succeeded at the beginning of December by Francis Pym . |
| 27 | As I mentioned at the beginning , many of the methodological problems are faced by other social scientists , and , of course , sociologists of religion will also employ other sociological methods and techniques that I have not specifically mentioned ( it was , for example , important to use a pilot questionnaire to test my questions for ambiguities and so on ) . |
| 28 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 29 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 30 | Erm I think that in in broad terms that covers the architectural aspects we we have of course , as er , Paul mentioned at the beginning erm talked the these designs through with the Clark Hill , Honey Hill and Fern Hill Resident 's Association and they have erm been , been shown the exhibition on the estate and er we believe that they 've been well received towards seeing what |