Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is another aspect of the construction of a word which it may also be helpful to know something about : that some ( particularly longer ) words are built out of other words , by adding prefixes at the beginning or suffixes at the end . |
| 2 | The retrospective exhibition of the art of Alfred Sisley which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts at the beginning of July closes in London on 18 October but continues , with a slightly different selection of works , at the Musée d'Orsay , Paris ( 30 October-31 January 1993 ) and at the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore ( 14 March-13 June 1993 ) , its only venue in the United States . |
| 3 | In families where they are able to identify good characteristics at the beginning of treatment the parents and child may have a sufficiently positive relationship to move directly into this phase . |
| 4 | Racing cyclists generally like to meet their fans at the beginning of a stage , but do n't ask for autographs today . |
| 5 | He was a bit sort of wobbly on his legs at the beginning of the day but he 's been |
| 6 | Yeah we went to see Racing Demons at the beginning of December did n't we ? |
| 7 | They took various steps at the beginning of the century to invigorate trade in the town , including the construction of a new town hall . |
| 8 | Scientists have discovered that the tons of dust which fall into the ocean provide vital minerals ( particularly iron ) to plankton and krill , shrimp-like animals at the beginning of the food chain . |
| 9 | When , however , it is exposed in the left field alone , the tendency to move the eyes at the beginning of the line ( presumably the dominant one ) would be in conflict with the tendency to move the eyes from left to right . |
| 10 | That training ( and the service that should have started with the Class 317 units at the beginning of the 1982 timetable ) was stopped by an industrial dispute about bonus payments for driver-only operation . |
| 11 | While variation in the ordering of tales is not merely possible but can be a critically rewarding way of reading the fragments in and around the middle of the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the fragments at the beginning and end ( fragments I and X , and , generally , II and IX ) are solidly fixed in place , challenging the reader to interpret them as and where they stand . |
| 12 | Bonar Law , backed by fewer MPs than any of the other three contenders at the beginning of the week was now to be the unanimous choice . |
| 13 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 14 | What you must do , however , is to write down your weekly goals at the beginning of each week . |
| 15 | The Leader of the Opposition said in his letter to supporters at the beginning of this year that Britain had a £20 billion trade deficit , when the truth was that the deficit fell by a half and the right hon. Gentleman 's figures were wholly wrong . |
| 16 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 17 | Since HWIM 's grammar was far less tightly constrained than the finite state grammar used in HARPY , the system hypothesised a considerable number of words at the beginning of an utterance . |
| 18 | Harvie penned those words at the beginning of last year . |
| 19 | Energy shortages at the beginning of the year had resulted in large-scale lay-offs of government employees and workers in large enterprises [ see p. 38018 ] . |
| 20 | Note the effect of the pizzicato chord for 1st violins and cellos at the beginning , and that the directions ‘ arco , unis. ’ , have not been omitted from the 1st violin part on its re-entrance . |
| 21 | He shouts heads or tails at the beginning of the game and then F*****g dissappears : - ) ) ) |
| 22 | It is this group who will be the senior teachers , heads and inspectors at the beginning of the second millennium , and it will be they who will therefore have the opportunity , if they choose to take it , to play a crucial role in educational reform . |
| 23 | Though there is no reason to think that the kings of Cyrene had actually helped Inaros at the beginning of the revolt , the fall of the Persian-backed Cyrenaean monarchy at about this period can be attributed to the infectious restlessness of Egypt next door , cp. below , p. 61 . |
| 24 | Services commenced at the remaining schools at the beginning of January . |
| 25 | The students attend the school for four sessions at the beginning of the summer term , to carry out their assignment . |
| 26 | The statement of reasons of a Community legislative measure is contained in a series of paragraphs at the beginning of the measure . |
| 27 | ‘ You are the Noble Royal Lines , the Enchanted Creatures created by the sorcerers at the beginning of Tara 's history . |
| 28 | The texts at the beginning of the exhibition explained that the purpose of these juxtapositions was to ‘ reflect the long established practice of studying old work for instruction ’ . |
| 29 | What perhaps helped to keep things relatively orderly and even solemn was the custom of offering prayers at the beginning of the meeting . |
| 30 | Chairman Graeme Dutton Forshaw said properties leased from Allied Breweries at the beginning of the year helped towards an increase in turnover and volume of about 14pc but he warned : ‘ Underlying trading conditions remain difficult and encouraging trends noted in earlier months look unlikely to be repeated in the rest of the year . ’ |