Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now , let's get something clear at the beginning . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the Code is quite explicit at the beginning : |
| 7 | The fees alone amount to between £6000 and £10,000 for the three years , payable at the beginning of each year . |
| 8 | £2,300 shall be payable at the beginning of the shoot period or on 27 November 1989 , whichever is the earlier |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ What seemed so hard at the beginning was the limitation that calling her Down 's and handicapped would have on her new life . |
| 14 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |
| 15 | It was equally hostile at the beginning of the 1977 one , but when no dramatic evidence of success materialised , such as the lights going out across Belfast , it continued hostile . |
| 16 | That was why he had been so hostile at the beginning , why he 'd known all about the family . |
| 17 | For example , it may appear at the beginning of a statement ( You know , it 's time we talked ) , but it is distinctly unusual at the beginning of a question ( You know , is it 6 o clock ? ) or a command ( * You know , shut the door ) , or an exclamatory or minor sentence ( one does not say , after banging one 's thumb with a hammer , * You know , damn ! ) . |
| 18 | ‘ It took an awful lot of my powers as Chairman of Academic Review and Resources Committee to steer that course through because it did mean a lot of resource implications that were n't obvious at the beginning . |
| 19 | I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast . |
| 20 | Under this system tenants paid low annual rents and a large entry fine at the beginning of their tenancy . |
| 21 | You 're at your most passionate at the beginning of July and a honeymoon at this time will be a wonderful experience . |
| 22 | Yes I did n't really have a good look through it because I got stuck on a an article that was so good at the beginning |
| 23 | Almost non-existent at the beginning of the 1980s , rail carryings of this commodity had assumed significant proportions by the end of the decade , showing Railfreight both eager and able to adapt to new opportunities . |
| 24 | According to the Prussian ambassador to St Petersburg , he was relatively confident at the beginning of February 1848 that he could prevent the dissatisfaction which was mounting elsewhere in Europe from penetrating his domains . |
| 25 | ‘ We are talking of potentially titanic forces which are present at the beginning of the Cosmos . ’ |
| 26 | The development of clones from the rosettes present at the beginning of the study was also recorded in detail so that the clonal parent was known for almost every rosette present in the quadrats at the end of the study . |
| 27 | Put this as a percentage of the number of aphids present at the beginning of the week : |
| 28 | It was in this context that Lord Denning in Dunford and Elliott v Firth Brown [ 1978 ] FSR 143 added a gloss to the analysis of Megarry V-C in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd when he said that if the stipulation of confidence was unreasonable at the time of making it ; or if it was reasonable at the beginning , but afterwards , in the course of subsequent happenings , it becomes unreasonable that it should be enforced : then the courts will decline to enforce it . |
| 29 | She wanted to say that he 'd feel all right when a little time had passed , just like you did at school when you were homesick at the beginning of term . |
| 30 | Even at sixteen , Will refuses to stand still at the beginning of a season for a presentation , but clams down as the year progresses . |