Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such units can either be used as measures , relative to some fixed point of interest ( including , crucially , the deictic centre ) , or they can be used calendrically to locate events in " absolute " time relative to some absolute origo , or at least to some part of each natural cycle designated as the beginning of that cycle ( Fillmore , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | A paper by the Russian scientist D. Ivanovsky , published in 1892 and often regarded as the beginning of the science of virology , describes how a disease of tobacco plants can be transmitted by the sap after it has passed through a filter capable of retaining bacteria and other particles . |
| 3 | Thus , as stressed near the beginning of section 10.4 when introducing the topic of feedback , the open-loop gain and feedback fraction are frequency-dependent complex quantities in general . |
| 4 | The high level of marking of the first two occurrences ( " Martian " and " Mars ' ) can be explained by their foregrounded status in being located near the beginning of the schema instantiation . |
| 5 | The discovery of the Americas and of southern Africa had synchronized with the beginnings of European printing and , throughout the sixteenth century , the expansion in European understanding of world geography and world ethnology coincided with a tremendous spread of general literacy , which was in turn accompanied by the revived and intensive study of the Bible in vernacular languages . |
| 6 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 7 | " The development of our lives is predetermined from the beginning by our family situation and the structure of society at a given moment in time . " |
| 8 | Well possibly and less likely to enjoy it , I mean I 've made a complete failure of my life , so I 'm , I 'm not and I never really enjoyed from the beginning I must say |
| 9 | A better name would seem to be Cadomian , after the Roman name for Caen in Normandy , where all the Precambrian sediments seem to have been tectonised before the beginning of the early Palaeozoic . |
| 10 | Demonstration materials are clearly designed from the beginning to put over a specific message . |
| 11 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 12 | During those talks , Mr Shevardnadze said all military aid to Nicaragua has been frozen since the beginning of the year , but that weapons may still be reaching Nicaragua from Cuba . |
| 13 | Already over 400 people have been shed since the beginning of the year , and the Prime Computer Inc that is going public on revised terms and will change its name to Computervision Corp , will end up with 5,900 people , and annual sales of some $1,200m , mainly computer-aided design software and maintenance . |
| 14 | These are word segments which are added to the beginning or end of a word in order to form a slightly different ( but related ) word , or to indicate tense or number . |
| 15 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 16 | A general rise in crime had also been reported since the beginning of the year , following an amnesty which had led to a large number of convicted offenders being released from prison [ see p. 37192 ] . |
| 17 | In late May 1991 it was reported that there had been a serious outbreak of dengue fever in the Cook Islands , with almost 800 cases having been reported since the beginning of the year . |
| 18 | Following extensive refurbishment , which includes shop floor reorganisation , a new lighting system and distinctive new green shelving , St George 's Gallery Books reopened at the beginning of the summer . |
| 19 | At the National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) an early CAI program was designed at the beginning of the seventies in conjunction with the George Washington University Medical Centre . |
| 20 | The proclamation followed approval on Oct. 20-27 by the highest state body , the unicameral National Assembly ( Orzággyülés ) , elected for a five-year term , of a new transitional constitution and electoral law which introduced a multiparty democratic system ( hitherto the sole legal party had been the Hungarian Socialist Worker 's Party , reorganised at the beginning of October as the Hungarian Socialist Party ) . |
| 21 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 22 | The first of the themes I want to mention — a resolute opposition to the psychologism of Mill and others — is stressed at the beginning of each series of lectures . |
| 23 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 24 | The block of flats was a new one and had not been fully occupied at the beginning of the war owing to the absence of people from London . |
| 25 | It is important to the final effect that , whatever the mixture , a curry powder is lightly fried at the beginning of the cooking to release its full flavour , and not merely stirred into a liquid . |
| 26 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 27 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 28 | This effectively marked the end of William Whitelaw 's service as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and he was succeeded at the beginning of December by Francis Pym . |
| 29 | The sales boom that Modigliani had enjoyed at the beginning of the year faded . |
| 30 | As it is a completely physiologically induced , and in that sense artificial , phenomenon , some of the criteria relevant to memory summarized at the beginning of this chapter are not relevant at this stage . |