Example sentences of "[Wh pn] at [art] start " in BNC.
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| 1 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 2 | He was able to take characters who at the start seemed ordinary enough , if prone to human weaknesses and vices , and to elevate them into the world of the scarcely real , of adventures and encounters riddled with the absurd . |
| 3 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 4 | Such links were part of a transformation which Eric Pawson has summed up : " many townspeople who at the start of the century had never , or rarely , seen a wheeled vehicle , were setting their time pieces by the arrival of the daily coach at its end " . |
| 5 | Barat and Haimet are two brothers , who at the start of the tale are passing through a forest with a companion called Travers . |
| 6 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |