Example sentences of "beginning of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief flurry of original stories at the beginning of the First World War , it was back to business as usual and , by the early 1920s , some 95 per cent of film stories were adapted from the stage or novels . |
| 2 | The Hound of Ulster is supposed to have lived at the beginning of the first century AD . |
| 3 | The French speak a language derived from that small group of speakers of Latin who conquered Gaul at the beginning of the first millennium AD , although they suppose they are descended more from the Gauls than the Romans . |
| 4 | Like other children , I watched him propel his chair up the chapel path , where he would wait in the porch till the beginning of the first hymn , then come just inside the door for the service . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the first year , the fixed rate was 13.25% at a time when the variable rate was 15.25% . |
| 7 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 8 | Their dominance outside the Americas grew into a world supremacy which reached a climax at the beginning of the first world war and began to crumble before the end of the second . |
| 9 | From the beginning of the first temples , around 1900 BC , walls were sometimes decorated with simple geometric patterns in white and red . |
| 10 | The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo . |
| 11 | As one teacher put it : Oh , the aim of the Project initially from my point of view was to get pupils from the beginning of the first year to have the ability to actually look up information for themselves … |
| 12 | ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. ) |
| 13 | At the beginning of the First World War there were nearly 140,000 motor cars on British roads . |
| 14 | The first failure is the beginning of the first lesson . |
| 15 | During the beginning of the first set , Toni feeling the desire to communicate with the audience , commenced with the question , ’ How many of you took Ecstasy last year ? ’ |
| 16 | ( a ) the student has been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of his/her course ; AND |
| 17 | ( i ) the student has been ordinarily resident in the EC throughout the three-year period preceding 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of his/her course ; AND |
| 18 | ( d ) certain recently-arrived immigrants who are formally settled ( in terms of the Immigration Act 1971 , as amended ) in the UK by 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of their course ; and certain refugees or persons of similar status . |
| 19 | ( a ) the student has been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of his/her course ; and |
| 20 | i. the student has been ordinarily resident in the EC throughout the three-year period preceding 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of his/her course ; and |
| 21 | d ) certain recently-arrived immigrants who are formally ‘ settled ’ ( in terms of the Immigration Act 1971 , as amended ) in the UK by 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of their course ; and certain refugees or persons of similar status . |