Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the beginning " in BNC.

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31 Moscato fought in an amateur bout in Amiens which he won in controversial circumstances at the beginning of April .
32 After an intermediate five-book stage , The Prelude was completed in 1805 in thirteen books , including the addition of the first 271 lines at the beginning of Book i .
33 Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching .
34 The modern police services in Britain originated in the needs of the growing urban areas at the beginning of the nineteenth century .
35 Finally , all manuals should end with an index which supplements the table of contents at the beginning .
36 ) And , having digested that , any Masons would have shot out of their seats at the beginning of the overture — threefold chords in a knocking rhythm .
37 Since Lothar had been summoned to meet his father at Worms at the beginning of July , he was already in the far north of Italy en route to the Rhineland when news of the emperor 's death reached him .
38 Of the staff employed in universities at the beginning of 1854 50 per cent had left their posts by the end of 1862 .
39 Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week .
40 For a few days at the beginning of August 1920 , it was widely believed that the Government was preparing to send a new British Expeditionary Force to relieve the Polish Army .
41 In this vision of rapid warfare there was still a place for great fortresses to provide temporary protection for frontiers and strategically vital areas during the crucial , disorganized days at the beginning of the campaign while the armies were assembling .
42 Wester Hailes Education Centre , also in Edinburgh , was visited by 20 Subject Assessors over three days at the beginning of February this year .
43 I had erm I was going to be representative of this committee at a erm safety seminar for three days at the beginning of this week that I was n't able to go to , and Councillor Kurtz has very kindly gone in my place , which is why she is not able to come to this meeting .
44 The second part starts at the beginning of Term 5 , before the first teaching practice ; it continues for four further weeks at the beginning of term 6 in the same teaching practice school .
45 Well placed at the time of Alexander II 's accession , Dmitrii Miliutin had been a penetrating analyst of the empire 's military weaknesses at the beginning of 1856 .
46 The census of 1931 which describes the distribution of workers at the beginning of Orwell 's decade , recorded twice as many workers in domestic service as there were miners ( about two million , compared with one million miners ) .
47 It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society .
48 where is the level of the firm 's ( pre-production ) stocks at the beginning of period t , and where the reservation price is as defined in ( 2 ) .
49 In practice it is not usually important to mark pauses at the beginning and end of a passage ; in the rest of the book I put no lines on short examples and only single lines around longer ones ; the boundaries within a passage are much more important .
50 I saw myself chugging along a short track : a little side-shunting labelled ‘ Marriage ’ with unyielding buffers at the beginning and the end — cutting off the track and all the future .
51 The policy agreed by the UK and US Governments at the beginning of May was not based on any detailed consideration of these distinctions .
52 In the mid-1920s , IG Farben was basing its product development on scientific research , and concentrating on innovative products such as plastics , solvents , insecticides and resins , rather than on bulk chemicals such as chlorine and soda ash , which were ICI 's staples at the beginning .
53 Watch out for the credits at the beginning of the programme : I 'm willing to bet my next season 's average that the batsman hitting the ball out of the ground will be Australian , while the batsman being clean-bowled by Merv Hughes 's moustache will be English .
54 Having fixed these ‘ volume ’ targets at the beginning of its period of office , a government would seek to hold to them even if the economy expanded faster or more slowly than expected , or if prices or wages rose .
55 You can get the best of both worlds by declaring these values in DATA statements at the beginning or end of your program and READing them into variables in your program .
56 They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course .
57 It is believed the chapel was built on this spot by monks at the beginning of he 16th century .
58 I would suggest that you build in a few nice easy open questions at the beginning of the session .
59 The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ .
60 As well as suggesting an autumn boost for the tourism industry , the group also proposed changes at the beginning of the season by introducing a fixed-date Easter holiday .
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