Example sentences of "beginning [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a motor-driven electronically tuned performance ( like a recent one by Salonen and the Philharmonia ) but one which attempted to penetrate the mysteries of the slower sections , above all those at the beginning of the second part , and one which was thoughtful enough to seem to come to its violent conclusion in spite of itself . |
| 2 | by the beginning of the second millennium . |
| 3 | George Orwell wrote , at the beginning of the Second World War , that : |
| 4 | Unified rule was ultimately achieved by Hammurabi towards the beginning of the second millennium BC , with its centre in Babylon . |
| 5 | For example , a number of humanities courses allow the student to postpone a decision to opt for a single subject or interdisciplinary course , or a major , joint or minor programme until the beginning of the second year . |
| 6 | And demand at the beginning of the second half has shown ‘ an encouraging increase . ’ |
| 7 | By the beginning of the second week , the organisers knew that the strike had achieved a substantial measure of success , but were much concerned that the media reports suggested the contrary . |
| 8 | The use of the passive It was won allows the prize to reappear at the beginning of the second sentence , and delays the introduction of the new information about the winners . |
| 9 | In England during the period between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the Second World War there was an increase in goods and services per person of four-to six-fold at a time when population was increasing six-fold . |
| 10 | In the beginning of the second set , everything was working so well . |
| 11 | It is this group who will be the senior teachers , heads and inspectors at the beginning of the second millennium , and it will be they who will therefore have the opportunity , if they choose to take it , to play a crucial role in educational reform . |
| 12 | Friedan 's The Feminine Mystique ( 1965 ) , which first appeared in the US in 1963 , at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , quotes male psychologists extensively and uncritically . |
| 13 | The woman-centred perspective had some impact at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , but it was in the 1970s that it became most powerful , and most in conflict with egalitarian approaches . |
| 14 | The company expects OEMs to start delivering Solaris 2.1-based systems the beginning of the second quarter . |
| 15 | Three practices had employed an extra member of staff either during the first year or at the beginning of the second to work specifically on fundholding duties or to release the practice manager to do this . |
| 16 | McDevitt has not been arrested ( as of the beginning of the second week of June ) but his role in a bungled 1980 robbery and his peddling of an art theft inspired screenplay in Hollywood have raised hopes that authorities may finally have cracked the perplexing case . |
| 17 | As we noted earlier , the Nazarean hierarchy , at the beginning of the second century , was directed by two brothers , James and Jude , who are specifically identified as grandsons of Jesus 's brother . |
| 18 | There is ample evidence , however , that the anatomical and neurochemical requirements for pain perception are present from the beginning of the second trimester of pregnancy and are reasonably well-developed by 30 weeks gestation . |
| 19 | The strategy which he argues for in the early nineteen thirties , and it subsequently becomes the dominant strategy of the Party and Mao becomes the er recognized leader of the Communist Party er really at the beginning of the second half of the nineteen thirties , nineteen thirty five nineteen thirty six , around that time it has become the dominant position . |
| 20 | It at the beginning of the second sentence refers to coming downstairs ( and not to his head , of course ) , and then the next it refers to another way . |
| 21 | The first traces seem to have appeared in Peru at the beginning of the second millennium B.C. By the birth of Christ a relatively complex metallurgy , including rich goldsmithery , was being practised in Panama and Costa Rica . |
| 22 | For most of the period up to the beginning of the Second World War , labour was plentiful and unemployment rates varied from moderate to the very high rates of the depression . |
| 23 | This is because in sentence ( 1a ) the referent for the pronoun they is provided within the first clause , whereas it does not become available until the beginning of the second clause in sentence ( 1b ) . |
| 24 | It already embraced Brahmans , Magi , Egyptian priests and Druids by the beginning of the second century B.C. , as we know from the authors quoted by Diogenes Laertius in his prooemium . |
| 25 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 26 | One may cite not only the case of the group already mentioned which felt itself to have been ill-treated at the hands of Civizade , but also the experience of Kadiri Celebi , the Mufti in the time of Suleyman , who spent nine years in great hardship as a before receiving an appointment , probably at the beginning of the second decade of the sixteenth century . |
| 27 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the second scene of the third act Antony once again shows us that things are not always as they appear . |
| 29 | There was a whole lot of other stuff scheduled for the beginning of the second millennium : green rain , black snow , animals learning to talk and a heck of a lot of red-hot hail . |
| 30 | June also saw the beginning of the second successive hot , dry summer , with consumers recognising the versatility of pork products for the barbeque and to serve with salads . |