Example sentences of "at the beginning that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader announced at the beginning that complete freedom of speech was allowed but speeches must be kept short . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I said at the beginning that you were gon na come and listen to our stories you also had |
| 5 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | I thought at the beginning that you were working with him , that it was your revenge for Eddie 's death . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As to the rest of the hon. Gentleman 's question , I said at the beginning that I thought the less said the better . |
| 10 | I pointed out at the beginning that the Lindop committee had said that suspicions should be dealt with differently . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I said right at the beginning that it would be a good thing if those two got together . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I know I said at the beginning that it could help save lives , am I er overstating the mark there ? |