Example sentences of "[was/were] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 2 | For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of . |
| 3 | It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 4 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 5 | The students , among whom a significant proportion was female , were at the beginning of a two year full time course on subjects familiar to CIT students . |
| 6 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 7 | The loans are fixed until April 1990 to get over what was at the beginning of the week ‘ the current period of uncertainty ’ and has now become a gloomy fact . |
| 8 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 9 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 10 | When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males . |
| 11 | ‘ Most important is to have the physical and mental strength to be as successful at the end of this season as I was at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 12 | Carrie 's birthday was at the beginning of May . |
| 13 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 14 | In contrast , the population of the inner ring is now nearly four times the size it was at the beginning of this century and the population of the outer ring is nearly twice the size . |
| 15 | It was at the beginning of May , some weeks after he first left , that the Zoo finally gave up hope of capturing the escaped golden eagle . |
| 16 | A map of the town as it was at the beginning of this century , plus one as it is today , would have added considerably to the understanding of a reader not familiar with the town . |
| 17 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 18 | Addressing delegates on July 20 Michael Merson , Director of the World Health Organization ( WH0 ) Global Programme on AIDS , said that the world was at the beginning of an " AIDS era " ; WHO estimates showed that at least one person became HIV-positive every 15 seconds . |
| 19 | The last one I went to was at the beginning of the Div 2 championship year . |
| 20 | UK consumption is around a third lower than it was at the beginning of this century . |
| 21 | The Restoration witnessed an attempt to return , unconditionally , to the country 's position as it was at the beginning of 1642 . |
| 22 | I mean , there were certainly elements of creativity , I think , there 's was at the beginning , I heard about coal fire stations . |
| 23 | ‘ My attitude is still the same as it was at the beginning of the 1986–87 season and that is , if I can continue to contribute then I 'm happy to do so . ’ |
| 24 | Yes , it was at the beginning of Advent . |
| 25 | You did n't cos the tape was at the beginning of the tape . |
| 26 | I , it were n't , it was at the beginning ! |