Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [art] start " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook . |
| 2 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 3 | Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account . |
| 4 | Many take the view that there should be timetabling at the start of legislation to enable it to be seen that Members are dealing with all parts of legislation from the word go . |
| 5 | He had a successful operation in December but suffered problems with his shoulder socket while training at the start of last month . |
| 6 | The decision to agree in principle came at a Labour group meeting at the start of COSLA 's annual conference . |
| 7 | ‘ Rosemary does n't want you living quite so close ? ’ his mother bridled , having been very much against his going at the start , but now , because he looked so upset , ready to take up cudgels on his behalf . |
| 8 | Occasionally athletes are kept waiting at the start for a minute or so until television is ready . |
| 9 | I was recently filming there with the BBC 's Country File and we spoke to some local farmers who said there were often queues of cyclists waiting at the start of the route for 5pm to come . |
| 10 | The same phenomenon can be seen in ( 5 ) where there is overlap beginning at the start of Brenda 's Creole stretch in line 11 . |
| 11 | Too many new businesses fail due to lack of coaching at the start . |
| 12 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |
| 13 | As for the reasons for the shortfall , the department says that research officers as a matter of course over-estimate spending at the start of a financial year . |
| 14 | The idea of macro-connectionism is to shorten the distance between the expert 's reasoning at the start of a project and the capture of his or her expertise at the finish . |
| 15 | There is no greater way to get the adrenalin flowing at the start of a race than when the commentator builds up to my name , the crowd waiting and then at its announcement bursting into loud cheering . |
| 16 | He used the long passageways to reassure himself that no one followed , before emerging at the start of avenue Foch . |
| 17 | The same is true in the slow movement — listen to the meltingly beautiful oboe and string playing at the start . |
| 18 | Swing low , sweet Chariot is left unaccompanied , but that involves a disturbing oddity of pitching at the start . |
| 19 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 20 | Since some of what is in people 's heads is taken from social science , there is a complication worth mentioning at the start . |
| 21 | But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly . |
| 22 | My only pen had stopped working at the start of the walk ; in the rain my watch face went blank . |