Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have made it quite clear from the beginning that a partnership government has to be a partnership at all levels , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It has been clear from the beginning that there are problems here for teachers having to assess a whole range of attainment targets across the curriculum . |
| 3 | Being a historical review , I shall deal primarily with facts ; however , on some occasions I shall be expressing opinions and I must make it clear from the beginning that these are my own personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the MOD . |
| 4 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 5 | It was clear from the beginning that the government was going to remain firm on the question of tenure , but a concerted campaign secured two concessions : the clause relating to the dismissal of senior staff was withdrawn and a statement guaranteeing academic freedom was written into the Bill . |
| 6 | The construction is , of course , that of the ordinary attributive adjective , the adjective which is the exponent in observable syntax of the subordinate property in the intensional structure : The essentials of the notation , for any who have taken the option of arriving at this point direct from the beginning of Section 1.2 , are as follows : The basic elements in constructing linguistic expressions are assumed to be two : E = entity notion ; and P = property notion The basic relations have these symbols : = = equation ; = qualification = assignment The direction of the arrow and the arrowhead indicates which is the major and which the subordinate item in the formula ; it does not refer to order of appearance in surface form . |
| 7 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 8 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now , let's get something clear at the beginning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although it was not easy in the beginning attracting regular work , the players all had sufficient confidence in the quality of the product , that they decided to concentrate their energies on the ensemble , rather than seek the immediate security of orchestral contracts . |
| 15 | Certainly he was convinced from the beginning that a solution could only come through Algerian self-determination and the democratically expressed will of the French people . |
| 16 | He was convinced from the beginning that Ken was perfect for the role of the slightly dotty but romantic detective in the white raincoat , a man who existed on a diet of macaroons he produced from out of a black Gladstone bag . |
| 17 | From the analogy with the surface of the earth , one might expect that the end of the universe would be similar to the beginning , just as the North Pole is much like the South Pole . |
| 18 | If one took the beginning of the universe to correspond to the North Pole , then the end of the universe should be similar to the beginning , just as the South Pole is similar to the North . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Britain 's annual energy needs were almost unchanged between the beginning and end of that period , but real GDP rose by 42 per cent . |
| 27 | The term formative is fairly obvious for the beginning of a development process so , also , the term expansion for the next stage . |
| 28 | ‘ I was surprised I was really tight in the beginning , kind of not really ready for the match , ’ said Graf . |
| 29 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 30 | ‘ The academy was too sleepy in the beginning , ’ Dr Roald Sagdeev , a radical academician and former director of the Space Research Institute , told The Economist . |