Example sentences of "at the beginning [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes … right at the beginning before my face got known . |
| 2 | He/she will tell you how much this is at the beginning so you know at the start how much you have to pay . |
| 3 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 4 | Whole-class sessions were very rare , though many sessions had a whole-class element , usually at the beginning and/or end . |
| 5 | The leader announced at the beginning that complete freedom of speech was allowed but speeches must be kept short . |
| 6 | There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget . |
| 7 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 8 | I said at the beginning that you were gon na come and listen to our stories you also had |
| 9 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 10 | To me , he wrote on 10 February as follows , the invective being tempered by the desire expressed at the beginning that we should have in due course a prolonged tête-à-tête : |
| 11 | I thought at the beginning that you were working with him , that it was your revenge for Eddie 's death . |
| 12 | As Mr. Charles Webster , the national health service historian , recently told ’ Newsnight ’ , that meant a splurge of spending at the beginning that was followed by the most desperate and dangerous cuts ever in the history of the national health service . |
| 13 | As to the rest of the hon. Gentleman 's question , I said at the beginning that I thought the less said the better . |
| 14 | I pointed out at the beginning that the Lindop committee had said that suspicions should be dealt with differently . |
| 15 | Indeed , we saw at the beginning that this was the principal reason for culture in the first place : it was a means of containing such anti-social antagonisms in what was , for a gelada-like hominid , a novel mode of subsistence which demanded considerable social cooperation , altruism and restraint . |
| 16 | See what I 'm saying is ask a nice open question an easy one at the beginning that you know most people are bound to understand you get a lot of participation and then start building it up . |
| 17 | ‘ I said right at the beginning that it would be a good thing if those two got together . |
| 18 | what 's happened , but it does say in it that at the beginning that you assume that he is a youth because he 's got , come from university , but when he 's in the graveyard the fellow , it , it comes out that he 's thirty is n't he ? |
| 19 | The continuous surveys procedure will state at the beginning that continuous surveys will contain in the master job file details of the extent to which that survey will follow the standard procedures . |
| 20 | I know I said at the beginning that it could help save lives , am I er overstating the mark there ? |
| 21 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 22 | I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast . |
| 23 | Some of these materials will be used for periods of presentation and exposition , not only at the beginning but at helpful points during the programme . |
| 24 | well I did n't used to , I used to have one A at the beginning but of course , it was impractical because the there were n't enough booklets to go round . |
| 25 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 26 | The practical point , of course , is never to parade all the facts at the beginning but to use them as a military commander might unleash the cavalry squadrons he has kept hidden below the brow of the hill . |
| 27 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 28 | then the eyes would be something you 'd also confront at the beginning but they 're equally important for the fox actually walking are n't they ? |
| 29 | Not just at the beginning but throughout what may prove to be a long and difficult journey of recovery . |
| 30 | I can see that now , even though I had no idea at the beginning where it might all lead me . |