Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | It symbolizes the beginning , a taste of things to come . |
| 2 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 3 | The circular form reminds us that God 's love is eternal , it has no beginning and no end . |
| 4 | But not only did the war raise the question of state power and economics ; for Bukharin and the Bolsheviks it signalled the beginning of the end of imperialist capitalism , the first act in the collapse of the system as a whole , a collapse that had been hotly debated in the pre-war Marxist movement in Europe . |
| 5 | And while she was pleased for Stella to be out of hospital and in more comfortable surroundings , she knew it heralded the beginning of the end of her own sojourn at Wilder 's Wilderness . |
| 6 | Supreme optimists might suggest it marks the beginning of one of the greatest escapes and would be unwilling to miss any part of it . |
| 7 | It marks the beginning of the end of their marriage . |
| 8 | It marks the beginning of the post-Conquest revival of Canterbury 's past ; more generally , Anselm 's intervention in Osbern 's career marked a turning point in saving the monastic and cultural tradition of pre-Conquest England , and the movement gathered impetus during the next half century . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the year 1961 , in which Molly Sheavyn and Mark Frame assumed office , is historically very significant for it marks the beginning of an era when the BDDA was no longer tun by part-time volunteers from their homes , but became an organisation with its own office and full-time paid staff . |
| 10 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
| 11 | I think it marks the beginning of the United States their first real world power . |
| 12 | She had been deluding herself that their lovemaking heralded a new direction to their relationship — that it presaged a beginning . |
| 13 | To me , when coming from the south , it means the beginning of the best , the gateway to the wonderful western seaboard , a region of lochs and glens and hills I have come to know so well after forty years of exploratory visits . |
| 14 | Indeed the real significance of the Welfare State report was that it marked the beginning of the end not for the health service but for the CPRS . |
| 15 | Built entirely of black glass , it marked the beginning of what was known as Death Row , a stretch of downtown First Avenue where most of the big funeral parlours had their offices . |
| 16 | It marked the beginning of the London Stock Exchange and an international trading boom for Britain . |
| 17 | It was mild by contrast with some of his later invective , but it marked the beginning of a year that was soon to be darkened by violence , malice and crime . |
| 18 | It marked the beginning of Richard 's association with Aquitaine . |
| 19 | Although this first national legislation placed the federal role as a passive supporter of state and local government policies , it marked the beginning of federal involvement which was to be transformed into an interventionist and policy-initiating role . |
| 20 | It marked the beginning of a special relationship between the town and a ten thousand tonne cruiser , which has just been commemorated . |
| 21 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 22 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 23 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 24 | ‘ It spells the beginning of the end of corporal punishment in British schools . ’ |
| 25 | In my case it 's every morning , though I do in a sense like it as it heralds the beginning of another crap day at school . |