Example sentences of "begin at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | PARENTS ' disapproval of their child 's friends can begin at a surprisingly young age . |
| 2 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
| 3 | ‘ Did n't you say the fireworks begin at a quarter to midnight ? |
| 4 | My own recollections begin at a public function just over 20 years ago . |
| 5 | The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace . |
| 6 | The Government 's caning began at a conference of 230 headmasters from the country 's top public schools . |
| 7 | Experimentation with heroin for interviewees in the hidden sector , then , began at a much earlier stage , after an average of six months of recreational drug use instead of 17 months . |
| 8 | Our afternoon lessons began at a quarter-to-two , and if the express did not run on time , I ran the risk of being late for roll call . |
| 9 | Her career in geography began at a time when , in Britain , this field was still among the less fully organized of the sciences . |
| 10 | His reign thus began at a moment when , as a result of defeat and financial stress , the difficulties which now faced the monarchy were beginning to be all too visible . |
| 11 | But the development of the idea of a ‘ nation ’ and the formation of nation states in Europe began at a much earlier time , and in order to understand the vigour of later nationalist movements in Europe and elsewhere we need to look more closely at that historical process . |
| 12 | With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes . |
| 13 | The trail began at a street in Cardiff . |
| 14 | The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes . |
| 15 | In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 . |
| 16 | By contrast the key feature of a fully developed nervous system is its specificity , the precise set of connections by which a signal beginning at a particular sensory cell runs in a defined route , ending in some effector cell , a private line , essentially insulated from the multitude of other neurons within the system . |
| 17 | Beginning at a point such as C , it is possible to give one person more only by giving the other person less . |
| 18 | One is left to wonder how many whites have fallen foul of ‘ their own myths ’ and begun at a ‘ psychological disadvantage ’ to blacks because of the misguided belief in ‘ natural ability ’ . |
| 19 | Because when I read the leaflet on that crucial afternoon , it turned out that I could n't start swallowing the pills on any old day : the course had to begin at a particular point in my menstrual cycle . |
| 20 | His story begins at a time when , as at other times in this century , the patriciate , and the merely rich , had slipped down into marked collusion with the smart , with upstarts and bohemians . |
| 21 | The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year . |
| 22 | Instead of beginning a search at the start of the structure ( i.e. first element of the array ) , the binary search technique begins at a mid point . |
| 23 | The story begins at a place called Deduru-Oya some 50 miles ( 80 km ) distant . |
| 24 | The problem begins at a conceptual level with the initial division between master and slave as such , as if relations of power work according to the binary opposition of Hegel 's fight to the death between two individuals . |
| 25 | It begins at a beginning and thus promises the whole of a life . " |