Example sentences of "[det] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Alec realised this at the beginning . |
| 2 | Two swing eighth notes resemble this triplet figure : *** Sometimes you might see this at the beginning of a chart : ***** In some texts , you might find the rhythm written as *** but it 's not actually played like that . |
| 3 | Finally , they would be told ( though they did n't know this at the beginning ) to make fair copies of their poems , taking on any of the suggestions they 'd agreed with , as well as things that occurred to them later . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have been useful if you 'd told me all this at the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | Leeds possed this at the beginning of the season when Batts , Speed , Macca and Strach were on the field . |
| 6 | It did n't seem to get as bad as this at the beginning . |
| 7 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 8 | The shots of the older child are termed cutaways , and they serve the very useful purpose of bridging time-gaps and of hiding jumps in the action , for instance the jump between the mother looking in one direction at the end of one shot and looking in another at the beginning of the next . |
| 9 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |
| 10 | For example , Mrs Moreen 's remark " And all overclouded by this , you know- all at the mercy of a weakness " ( 9 ) has the anaphoric repetition of all at the beginning of successive clauses , and has two banal colloquial metaphors in the expressions " overclouded " and " at the mercy of " . |
| 11 | They 'll not be co they 're not coming for , at all at the beginning of April , and that 's if , it 's not that long . |
| 12 | By then , not merely was much more known about light , heat , electricity and magnetism , but the knowledge was unified with a powerful theoretical structure , so that while chemistry had seemed the fundamental science to many at the beginning of the century , by the end of it there was little doubt that this position belonged to physics . |
| 13 | It was not a motor-driven electronically tuned performance ( like a recent one by Salonen and the Philharmonia ) but one which attempted to penetrate the mysteries of the slower sections , above all those at the beginning of the second part , and one which was thoughtful enough to seem to come to its violent conclusion in spite of itself . |
| 14 | And presented those at the beginning . |
| 15 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 16 | because of those at the beginning . |
| 17 | Bit more detail , yeah more at the beginning |
| 18 | Because we were doing that at the beginning of the week , a scare , you could actually get |
| 19 | erm it may be erm a a good idea to use it as a erm as a first scheme perhaps to erm to try and er car park and if you look at that at the beginning and just keep it on a on a rolling programme then all that does n't get so enormous er it does n't get such a a large task so maybe if er , but it does need coordinating perhaps we should think about it . |
| 20 | Every day bank deposits are withdrawn and fresh deposits made so that at the end of each day liquidity for each bank will be different from that at the beginning . |
| 21 | And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week . |
| 22 | Oh yes , did that at the beginning for for a long time . |
| 23 | Some boy or somebody cut the phone , you saw that at the beginning . |