Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baseball fan at the beginning of the century — free of the possibly inhibiting influence of women spectators and close enough to the playing field in those tiny ball parks to take immediate action against erring players or umpires — was , by all accounts , an abysmal churl . |
| 2 | To understand the challenge to the papacy that this scene represents , we need to look at the structure of the traditional Church and also at popular religion at the beginning of the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 4 | Although he took Parliament 's side at the beginning of the civil war he attempted to arrange a neutrality pact with the Norfolk Royalists , and was soon advocating peace . |
| 5 | The commission had blamed the security forces for the deaths of four people in post-election violence in the northern city of Shkodër at the beginning of April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 6 | Under the new system , clients will be issued with a menu card at the beginning of each week and will be asked to pick the meals they wish to eat . |
| 7 | They say they like the sound of singing , which gives them a bit of a boost at the beginning of the day . ’ |
| 8 | However , it was obviously not deemed grand enough by the Moon of the manor at the beginning of the seventeenth century who built on the exquisite Renaissance porch in Purbeck limestone . |
| 9 | That includes the Open Software Foundation , which , having given up its board seat at the beginning of this year , currently has no formal relationship with X/Open , even though the standards body has endorsed its Distributed Computing Environment technology . |
| 10 | IT says a lot for the African National Congress in South Africa that , after their supporters were gunned down in cold blood at the beginning of the week , they are still prepared to talk peace . |
| 11 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 12 | Directors Tamara Chodzko and Lawren Maben have taken a lease at 100 Great Russell Street where they launched their programme at the beginning of last month with ‘ A Modest Proposal ’ ( to 16 May ) . |
| 13 | The annual meeting of the Rentokil Golf Society hosted by Chief Executive Clive Thompson took place at the Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club at the beginning of October . |
| 14 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 15 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 16 | There was optimism at the beginning of February that the violence which had been waged in Azerbaijan and along its borders with Armenia with such ferocity in the previous month [ see pp. 37168-70 ] might be ended by peace talks between the leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front and Armenian Pan-National Front which began in Riga ( the Latvian capital ) on Feb. 1 . |
| 17 | The eighteen twenties and thirties saw fashion moving from the Empire line , which was , had a very small bodice and a skirt that flowed down straight to the ground to a lower waisted dress with big sleeves and a shorter skirt , and the impression of a little girl , a little sort of bouncy girl who was all skippy and everything , which reflected really the feeling of optimism at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship . |
| 19 | Not a UFO hanging high above Rennie House but one of five new water coolers , each of ten tonnes , being hoisted onto the roof at the beginning of April . |
| 20 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |
| 21 | Main , a 60-year-old plumber from Broadwell near Lechlade , was charged with Joan 's murder at the beginning of March . |
| 22 | Some , but not all , automatically roll back the source tape at the beginning of each edit to offset the backspace and so produce edits which are accurate to within one or two frames . |
| 23 | This year South West London MEP Anita Pollock cut the tape at the beginning of the walk which visited 15 London Embassies . |
| 24 | None of it was Lotta 's fault at the beginning . |
| 25 | I do not remember now who wrote it , but it is no doubt from a modern German author , perhaps a philosopher , and it expresses exactly my state of mind at the beginning of 1958 . |
| 26 | Through easy small talk at the beginning and by humour , giving a relaxed impression themselves . |
| 27 | Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo . |
| 28 | The interview at the beginning is embarrassing enough to make you think that maybe Normski will end up this way . |
| 29 | The irony is that the matting was being laid on a fresh carpet of 3 inches of snow at the beginning of December ! |
| 30 | The inaugural Grand Finals of the Cellnet Singles Challenge — an enterprising national tennis tournament set up to boost competitive singles play in this country — were staged at Basingstoke 's sumptuous Centrecourt complex at the beginning of December , with some of the country 's leading club players competing for honours . |