Example sentences of "but at the beginning " in BNC.

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1 But at the beginning , at clubs like Shoom and Future , the music went beyond classification : it was simply good music .
2 Rivers and canals had been the main means of transporting goods , particularly heavy or bulky goods , but at the beginning of the nineteenth century , railways began to appear .
3 Boulenger was not really ‘ a certain ’ , but at the beginning of this century one of the greatest herpetalogists or ‘ amphibiologists ’ of his time .
4 The president is ostensibly the driver of this large complex machine , but at the beginning of each new administration the question is : Will the man temporarily in charge of this unwieldy , temperamental vehicle be able to master its tricky controls and get it to move at all ?
5 But at the beginning of 1925 , he changed the emphasis and told the Constitutional Club that it was a long-meditated move to reunite the Conservative Party .
6 The program runs continuously in ‘ film mode ’ but at the beginning the teacher sets the level of difficulty and the time-delay before the correct answer appears ; a sequence of randomly generated fractions follows .
7 But at the beginning of Acts , volume two in the drama , we find the story of the ascension related again , and from a very different point of view .
8 But at the beginning of a match , whether at club or national level , the accepted basic stance is this free-fighting one .
9 But at the beginning of the war , when things were very doubtful , and we did n't know whether the army would commandeer all our buildings or what , and we started to make bench models of this er iron shearing machine .
10 But at the beginning of my third year , took over from , he played saxophone , and was more interested in school bands and pop music .
11 Fanny possesses strong feeling towards Edmund but at the beginning of the novel is quiet in showing her feelings .
12 but at the beginning of the morning it were cold and then it went warmer
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