Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] beginning " in BNC.

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31 Still , the tracers had to start at the beginning , their call-finder mechanism racing frantically through the twenty thousand numbers on the exchange .
32 All will want something different , and the only way to help everyone , whatever they might already know about roses , is to start at the beginning .
33 The user may wish to start at the beginning of the file , or at any other point .
34 There is no need to start at the beginning of a programme.You can run forward to any point you choose and simply look at one short section in the middle .
35 I wanted to start at the beginning .
36 And what he said , was , ‘ Well now , I 'll have to start at the beginning .
37 TRACE II has no choice but to start at the beginning and work rightwards , since input directed to feature detectors automatically results in activity at the phonetic and lexical levels through the hard-wired connections .
38 No it 's too late for that now , we 'll have to start at the beginning .
39 I 'll probably have to do me tour of the quayside to start at the beginning where we went
40 In the ACCs , the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970 .
41 Whitechurch was shown the works by Mr G. Coker , chief draughtsman : ‘ There are two chief ways of seeing the works , either to begin at the finished coach and work backwards to the details , or to go to the beginning first and work upwards , but , at all events , you shall see as much as we can show you in a day ’ .
42 I now want to go to back to the beginning of the statement .
43 Or , perhaps , it had the meaning he had wanted it to have from the beginning : the meaning that had kept him out of coups led by others .
44 All courses have an underlying philosophy that emphasises the positive value of bilingualism , recognises the importance of anti-racist approaches to curriculum , materials and methods , acknowledges the role that mother tongue may play in learning and draws attention to the fact that bilingual students may have already studied the subject in their own country and need to transfer knowledge rather than to learn from the beginning .
45 So he said how was you going to eat in the beginning Ann ?
46 Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket .
47 ‘ 'You 're to go at the beginning of January , but I shall have to wait till all this house business is finished .
48 The programme must be available for the student to see at the beginning of her allocation .
49 to include at the beginning of each Video Cassette a statement as follows : ‘ This copy is made under licence from Oxford University Press and no further copies may be made ’ .
50 to include at the beginning of each Video Cassette a statement as follows : ‘ This copy is made under licence from Oxford University Press and no further copies may be made ’ .
51 At any point the ‘ grandmother ’ can turn round and anyone seen to be moving has to return to the beginning .
52 If the egg is dropped or held , the Brownie has to return to the beginning .
53 But although spots may seem to improve at the beginning , post-holiday , you may well find you are getting eruptions .
54 It is difficult for you to foresee at the beginning of your programme just how you will feel , what things will happen , which goals might prove harder than anticipated .
55 The use of the passive It was won allows the prize to reappear at the beginning of the second sentence , and delays the introduction of the new information about the winners .
56 In order to apply the test it is obviously necessary to get the designers of the material to specify from the beginning what the purpose of the recording is .
57 According to Danielle de St Jorre , Minister for Planning and External Affairs , after modifications to the Constitution political parties would be invited to register from the beginning of January 1992 ; party-based elections for a constituent commission were expected to be held in July .
58 First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ .
59 ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life .
60 The Silmarillion , though , in its longer form , was bound to begin at the beginning .
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