Example sentences of "[adj] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 at the beginning of his work Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre Georg Cantor * made the following definition : By a set we understand any collection M of definite , distinct objects m of our perception or of our thought ( which will be called the elements of M ) into a whole . |
| 2 | I think Alec realised this at the beginning . |
| 3 | Two swing eighth notes resemble this triplet figure : *** Sometimes you might see this at the beginning of a chart : ***** In some texts , you might find the rhythm written as *** but it 's not actually played like that . |
| 4 | Finally , they would be told ( though they did n't know this at the beginning ) to make fair copies of their poems , taking on any of the suggestions they 'd agreed with , as well as things that occurred to them later . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been useful if you 'd told me all this at the beginning . ’ |
| 6 | Leeds possed this at the beginning of the season when Batts , Speed , Macca and Strach were on the field . |
| 7 | It did n't seem to get as bad as this at the beginning . |
| 8 | After the referendum results were announced , the rouble fell to 812 to the dollar , down from 415 at the beginning of the year . |
| 9 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 10 | Yeah it went er it went it went a bit wrong at the beginning because as I say you did it with business card and er buyer 's guide , that came in a after the erm statement of purpose really . |
| 11 | Now , let's get something clear at the beginning . |
| 12 | By placing experimental cuckoo eggs in the nests of warblers throughout the summer breeding season , the biologists established that egg rejection rates changed during the breeding season : the rejection of the cuckoo eggs was high at the beginning and end of the season , and low in the middle . |
| 13 | As well as being fully adequate at the beginning , the text ends at a suitable and sufficient point ; the possible significance of this can evidently easily be missed . |
| 14 | Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War . |
| 15 | When the house was empty at the beginning of the century following the owner 's death , some village children crept into the orchard and began to collect apples . |
| 16 | The shots of the older child are termed cutaways , and they serve the very useful purpose of bridging time-gaps and of hiding jumps in the action , for instance the jump between the mother looking in one direction at the end of one shot and looking in another at the beginning of the next . |
| 17 | Aspiration is strongest at the beginning of a stressed syllable : port , tiger , incur , but there is no aspiration if the syllable begins with /s/ : sport , sty , scarf . |
| 18 | My second marriage collapsed in 1991 at the beginning of my last year of vocational training — and I still had dependants . |
| 19 | But the Code is quite explicit at the beginning : |
| 20 | The fees alone amount to between £6000 and £10,000 for the three years , payable at the beginning of each year . |
| 21 | £2,300 shall be payable at the beginning of the shoot period or on 27 November 1989 , whichever is the earlier |
| 22 | In Sinhalese imagery the two ends of a coconut represent respectively the penis of a man and the breasts of a woman and the preliminary separation of the two ends is appropriate at the beginning of a wedding which is to unite male and female . |
| 23 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 24 | The number of people more than six months in arrears with their mortgage payments rose from 8,420 in 1979 to 41,900 in 1984 and to 45,840 at the beginning of 1988 . |
| 25 | In the first one , he is content at the beginning , but then we begin to see , at the end of this part , that he is dissatisfied with his status , his loneliness and is cared by the criminal ‘ underworld ’ . |
| 26 | It 's not clear at the moment , whether we gon na get too much opposition , I mean , they might just sort cave in straight at the beginning and then take it on board , but er , there 's definite potential there . |
| 27 | As Rioch suggests ( see p. 7 at the beginning of this chapter ) , women psychologists always need to be better to be equal . |
| 28 | The number of local Green parties had risen to nearly 270 by the end of the year and the membership had almost doubled from 9000 at the beginning of the year to 17,000 by the end . |
| 29 | ‘ What seemed so hard at the beginning was the limitation that calling her Down 's and handicapped would have on her new life . |
| 30 | In January 1920 at the beginning of our second term at school , my father died . |