Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [art] beginning " in BNC.
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1 | XXX at the beginning of the shoot |
2 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
3 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
4 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 50 ) mentions the theory that the temples ( though he treats them as palaces ) at Knossos and Phaistos were founded by foreign dynasts who invaded Crete at the beginning of the Middle Minoan period ; according to this view , urbanization occurred in Crete as a result of the arrival of already-urbanized conquerors . |
5 | Erm , and so Freud at the beginning says that he er , he , he had a personal dislike of er Wilson , and resented him for what he had done and held him responsible for the subsequent disasters . |
6 | Life in Parma at the beginning of the school year seemed normal apart from the Fascist propaganda in the papers , but one began to sense that the members of the Party were becoming even more arrogant and domineering than before , and that it was increasingly important for people with different ideas to keep them to themselves and never to discuss politics . |
7 | Typically , the first action he describes was a mistake : the bombing of Freiburg at the beginning of the war by a squadron of the Luftwaffe believing itself to be over Dijon . |
8 | I took over from John Thynne at the beginning of December . |
9 | By way of a contrast to the more usual content found between these covers , let me take you to Georgian England at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century . |
10 | And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected . |
11 | In Scotland , the universities had always had strong scientific and philosophical traditions ; but in England at the beginning of the century neither of the two universities was a centre of scientific research . |
12 | ‘ It was incredible , it was like a bomb going off , ’ was how Pat described the opening ; just as in England at the beginning , there were days when customers had to be locked out and long queues formed . |
13 | From what he told me I know for a fact the IRA did n't use Mick during their bombing campaign in England at the beginning of the war . ’ |
14 | Dierdriu said , ‘ You know the ancient curse laid on Tara at the beginning of her history ? ’ and looked at him and waited , and Fergus said , half to himself , ‘ If Tara should ever belong to a pure-bred Human , then it will fall into ruin , and the Bright Palace will be no more … ’ ’ ‘ ‘ … and all Ireland will seethe with evil , and the skies will darken , and the rivers will run with blood . ’ |
15 | Tuscany at the beginning of his reign was still what it had been since the formation of the Grand Duchy in the sixteenth century , a personal union of a number of medieval city-states of which the most important were Florence and Siena . |
16 | ‘ We signed him and when he came back from Brazil at the beginning of the next season , he explained that he had changed his name , dropped the da Silva . |
17 | Pip 's relationship with Estella at the beginning is weak because of her attitude towards him and the reason why . |
18 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |
19 | ‘ We seem to be travelling all the time when it comes to cups , and indeed we will be at Instonians in the next round of the Touche Ross at the beginning of June , ’ said Garfield . |
20 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
21 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
22 | Before the National Government banned Britons going to Spain at the beginning of 1937 there were already more than 600 men in the British Battalion of the International Brigade , organized by the Communist Party of Great Britain , while others , such as George Orwell , identified with the Independent Labour Party activists who fought with POUM , a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist group . |
23 | When the Nationalists launched their third attack , on 3 January 1937 , their forces had been reinforced considerably , especially by Italian and German aircraft , including the German " Condor Legion " , despatched to Spain at the beginning of November and allowed by Franco to use the Spanish war as a practice ground for devastating new techniques of destruction and terror . |
24 | Evans kept a note of his expenditure in a little black book which he presented to Grunte at the beginning of each Summer Recess . |
25 | Evening rain interrupted top seed Mary Joe Fernandez and fellow American Rachel Jensen at the beginning of their second-match with the score at one set apiece . |
26 | The UK Secretary of State for Defence , Tom King , made a four-day visit to the Falkland Islands at the beginning of March 1990 . |
27 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
28 | erm there is basically , as you know , and as Queenie at the beginning , it is actually the County Council who is the highway authority and we are their agent . |
29 | Bought from Roda JC at the beginning of last season , the 6ft 5in Dykstra not surprisingly likes charging off his line to gather cross balls . |
30 | After I had returned to Oxford from Abyssinia at the beginning of 1931 , I had read Nesbitt 's account of his journey , in the Geographical Journal for October 1930 . |