Example sentences of "come at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 2 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 3 | The first exchange came at the beginning of November 1929 . |
| 4 | The summer came at the beginning of August . |
| 5 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 6 | This will have the advantage of coming at the beginning of a new financial year . |
| 7 | London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions . |
| 8 | It ca n't be good for morale coming at the beginning of the school holidays . |
| 9 | Uncontroversial and fairly routine questions — not always easy to spot — should normally come at the beginning , leaving personal and more intimate ones for later . |
| 10 | Both conjunctions and disjuncts usually come at the beginning of English clauses ; it is natural for the speaker to place in initial position an element which relates what s/he is about to say to what has been said before ( conjunction ) or an element which expresses his/her own judgement on what is being said ( disjunct ) . |
| 11 | The same can not be said about languages in which the predicator frequently comes at the beginning of the clause and therefore represents an unmarked — or at least less marked — thematic choice . |
| 12 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |