Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can picture their relationships in a way that looks like the beginning of a branching hierarchy : |
| 2 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 3 | Guinness advertising , like the pint itself , has from the beginning fascinated by its uniqueness . |
| 4 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 5 | The area has been associated with cavalry exercises from the beginning of the 15th century . |
| 6 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |
| 7 | They need a sympathetic response , that is understandable and starts at the beginning . |
| 8 | Brompton Road , SW3 Long Acre , WC2 Sale starts at the beginning of January . |
| 9 | The second part starts at the beginning of Term 5 , before the first teaching practice ; it continues for four further weeks at the beginning of term 6 in the same teaching practice school . |
| 10 | that happens before the beginning of February you can leave out . |
| 11 | In other words , what happens at the beginning of the story states why the relationships between two or more characters lead to confrontations which continue onwards to a climax and finally draw the ballet to a suitable conclusion . |
| 12 | if this happens at the beginning of an utterance , a left-to-right strategy may consume a great amount of time examining interpretations which look good initially , but can not be completed . |
| 13 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 14 | The assessment process , it says at the beginning of its report , |
| 15 | I mean if the communists actually saying this is a force , I mean he , he says at the beginning |
| 16 | This lambast , which occurs at the beginning of the novel , is not just another Jacobsonian account of the too easy reverence paid to writers of ‘ magic realism ’ . |
| 17 | The following example occurs at the beginning of a chapter : |
| 18 | The sensation of falling typically occurs at the beginning of the night , during Stage I sleep . |
| 19 | In preposed theme , the gloss tag occurs at the beginning of the clause , in postposed theme , it occurs at the end of the clause . |
| 20 | It is possible to see Halliday 's view of theme — as whatever comes in initial position in the clause — as a reflection of ( a ) the nature of English as a language with relatively fixed word order , and ( b ) his study of Chinese , this being a language with a special category of topic which always occurs at the beginning of the clause . |
| 21 | A study of the Tamil phoneme /l/ would reveal that it never occurs at the beginning of a word . |
| 22 | If it occurs at the beginning of a committee meeting where something is going to be pushed through and the agenda manipulated it can provoke the reaction , " … hypocrites " . |
| 23 | He looks forward with impatience to the time when he will be sent to Siberia ; his martyrdom ends with the beginning of his punishment " . |
| 24 | had the knowledge which would permit them to regulate their population increases from the beginning of the industrial revolution , and before . |
| 25 | The interaction across topics involves longer-range transfer and leads to the beginning of the exploration of problem-solving . |
| 26 | Owner-occupiers tend to delay childbearing because they face heavy housing costs at the beginning of their marriage . |
| 27 | Though Connie knows that individual vision is personal , and does n't have to compromise truth ( the suicide she witnesses at the beginning is described twice , quickly and slowly , close and distant ) , the book itself is finally dependent on recognition . |
| 28 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
| 29 | The history of the inter-war pub stems from the beginning of state interference under the Central Control Board ( Liquor Traffic ) set up in 1915 . |
| 30 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |