Example sentences of "[subord] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except at the beginning , when the eccentric lord immediately clashed with Johnson , even though Johnson says that the magnetism of Lord Monboddo 's conversation ‘ easily drew us out of our way , and the entertainment which we received would have been a sufficient recompense for a much greater deviation ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Who is she ? ’ ( the weak form is usually pronounced without except at the beginning of a sentence ) ‘ Which did he choose ? ’ |
| 3 | The beneficiary is twice described as a legatee , although at the beginning we are told that she acquired per fideicommissum . |
| 4 | Baker denied that the situation in the Gagauz and Dnestr regions would create a problem in establishing diplomatic relations between the USA and Moldova , although at the beginning of February there had been reports of fighting between Dnestr separatists and Moldovan police . |
| 5 | And while the White House has publicly dismissed anti-war demonstrators as well-meaning but ‘ misguided individuals ’ , off the record , some presidential advisers reportedly consider the anti-war movement a danger to be dealt with , noting that ‘ its membership is mainstream and 100 times stronger now than at the beginning of Vietnam . ’ |
| 6 | Moral : never start a big warren system other than at the beginning of the day 's work , since you need to complete it if at all possible rather than have to extend the work into another day . |
| 7 | ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’ |
| 8 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 9 | The self-financing ratio was no higher in the later years of the period than at the beginning , though , without the pressure from the Ministry , it would no doubt have declined . |
| 10 | The survival of the nationals may seem remarkable , in view of the much greater choice of alternative media at the end of the period than at the beginning , with TV an obvious competitor for the reader 's time and the advertiser 's money . |
| 11 | Since privatisation ( and no doubt helped by the £200 million of public investment ) the firm has expanded substantially and currently has about 1,000 more employees than at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 12 | Nay-sayers are more likely to surface in the middle than at the beginning because now the project is more of a threat , more a challenge to their own perceived status . |
| 13 | For instance , the number of working-age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 14 | We were , however , readier , I think , than at the beginning , to take seriously and to counter , the equally serious convictions of those who held that there was no place for courses similar to ours , of which there were at that time a number in various stages of development . |
| 15 | Before we consider why processing load might be greater at the end of a clause than at the beginning , we will discuss some experiments which have been carried out on reading , from which a similar pattern has emerged . |
| 16 | That meant Argentinian shoppers were paying roughly 30 times more for the same basket of goods at the end of 1989 than at the beginning of the year . |
| 17 | ( 8 ) A cash offer which falls for acceptance near the end of a fiscal year rather than at the beginning of the next fiscal year will not be particularly popular with accepting shareholders as it will make a significant difference to the payment date for capital gains tax ( see para 23.2.1.1 below ) . |
| 18 | A cash offer which falls for acceptance near the end of a fiscal year rather than at the beginning of the next fiscal year will make a significant difference to the payment date for capital gains tax . |
| 19 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 20 | He was still limping slightly , but much less than at the beginning of the week . |
| 21 | If at the beginning of NEP local party attitudes appeared to contain an element of laissez-faire , this was only because very little in fact could be achieved for lack of human and other resources . |
| 22 | But the chances are , too , that if at the beginning you saw yourself as writing a crime novel and no more , then you will have spoilt the novel you eventually turned out to have produced , as well as causing in a good many of your readers a subtle feeling of disappointment . |
| 23 | If at the beginning of a career in crime writing you feel you would like to try this most awkward of short climbs , good luck to you . |
| 24 | Catherine recognizes also that her happiness is more important than pleasing Eddie , but her choice is the hardest because at the beginning of the play Eddie wanted what was best , but by the end his wishes would have made her miserable . |
| 25 | What has happened over the course of this century has been an improvement in people 's states of fitness at particular ages so that whereas at the beginning of the century people in their sixties were regarded as being old , it is clear that people who survive into their sixties are now mainly , as is described below , generally quite fit . |
| 26 | The structure of universities in Germany , France , Britain and the USA was very different , but everywhere they were by the end of the century centres of scientific research , while at the beginning of it they had mostly been very marginal to it . |
| 27 | A field programme , largely parallel to that of the Geology degree , runs through years 1–3 , whilst at the beginning of year 4 a supervised field programme is followed by a field-based project . |
| 28 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 29 | In America , image-making started early when at the beginning of this century , wealthy John D Rockefeller Jr , hired a press agent to change his image from that of a mean old rich man to that of philanthropist . |
| 30 | The evidence indicates an immediate confirmation of Mercian overlordship in the territory of the Hwicce , when at the beginning of his reign Offa defined the relationship of Eanberht and his brothers , Uhtred and Ealdred , rulers of the Hwicce , to himself as that of reguli , kinglets ( CS 183 : S 55 ; CS 107 : S 56 ) , but Offa 's position may have been more secure here than elsewhere . |