Example sentences of "[pron] at [art] start " in BNC.
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| 1 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 2 | He was able to take characters who at the start seemed ordinary enough , if prone to human weaknesses and vices , and to elevate them into the world of the scarcely real , of adventures and encounters riddled with the absurd . |
| 3 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 4 | Such links were part of a transformation which Eric Pawson has summed up : " many townspeople who at the start of the century had never , or rarely , seen a wheeled vehicle , were setting their time pieces by the arrival of the daily coach at its end " . |
| 5 | Barat and Haimet are two brothers , who at the start of the tale are passing through a forest with a companion called Travers . |
| 6 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 7 | But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year . |
| 8 | And I meant what I said about you at the start of this . |
| 9 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 10 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 11 | The earthquake was unusually violent and somewhat unexpected , because we had already had a strong one at the start of March . |
| 12 | So , you 've left your loved one at the start line and made all those very necessary noises of encouragement . |
| 13 | He I 'm suppo he says to email him , contact him at the start of week zero , because he 's goin he he 's trying to remember of his own accord , but er ju this is just to give him a kick along in case he 's forgotten |
| 14 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 15 | She has three spells dealt to her at the start of the battle in the usual way as described in Warhammer Battle Magic . |
| 16 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 17 | It is Denethor 's insistence on defending this ( III , 89 ) that nearly kills Faramir , and all it does in practice is to obstruct the arrival of the Rohirrim ( III , 111 ) by which time it is already a ‘ ruin' , for all the ‘ labour ’ wasted on it at the start . |
| 18 | This may seem the predictable conclusion to a scenario involving , as unions and Opposition politicians indeed presented it at the start , the injection of a ‘ private sector hatchet man ’ at the top of a highly sensitive public sector organisation . |
| 19 | I am sure that the House will start to fill rapidly as I address it at the start of the second day of debate on the Bill . |
| 20 | They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill . |
| 21 | It must be accessible to everyone at the start . |
| 22 | It must be accessible to everyone at the start . |
| 23 | — welcomed everyone at the start of a new academic year , and hopes you all have a record number of enrolments . |
| 24 | ‘ I was shocked when Scot Gemmill was brought in for me at the start of last season because it came out of the blue . |
| 25 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 26 | ‘ What a thing to tell me at the start of a visit here ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 28 | He 's come round to both our Joe and our Tamar and , heaven knows , he was bitter enough against them at the start . ’ |
| 29 | and nobble them at the start of the conference . |
| 30 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |