Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 2 | So what I 'm saying is that although there will be an overspend , it should n't be massive cos the overspend would effectively be the hump right at the beginning of the year . |
| 3 | If you decide to exercise at home ( and there are many programmes and routines on tape , in magazines and in books ) remember to start slowly and build up gradually , following the warming-up exercise faithfully at the beginning and end of the programme . |
| 4 | Just one big stretchy chord right at the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Honestly , sweetest , ’ said Mrs. Mounce , ‘ do n't go lumbering yourselves with a house and a mortgage right at the beginning . |
| 6 | Irene and Douglas Avery had moved to Deerhurst Road right at the beginning of the expansion , just after Juliet 's birth . |
| 7 | Complaints follow errors in the diet especially at the beginning of a warm spell after cold weather . |
| 8 | Wrangham , after a short period of ecological work , remarked that ‘ herd formation clearly involves costs even at the beginning of the wet season , when a grazing animal should have the best food supply of the year ’ . |
| 9 | Indeed , animals with shells ( the first kind of skeletons ) appeared only 530 million years ago at the beginning of the period known as the Cambrian — fairly late , compared with the age of life itself . |
| 10 | Euparkeria appeared 225 million years ago at the beginning of the Triassic — a small archosaur . |
| 11 | On Monday , a meeting was demanded with Francis Pym , a newcomer who had replaced William Whitelaw as secretary of state for Northern Ireland some weeks earlier at the beginning of December . |
| 12 | These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research . |
| 13 | , yeah it 's come in handy to put those things right at the beginning , that 's the first thing you look at , you do it on purpose . |
| 14 | Under the Bush administration , State Department officials met the delegates only at the beginning and end of each round . |
| 15 | Why did n't we just check things in at the beginning and check things out at the end ? |
| 16 | It is nevertheless imperative that we view the text as a whole both at the beginning and at the end of the process . |
| 17 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 18 | Erm you did try and pick up , I think you realized that er you had n't done your ref er your referrals properly at the beginning and you actually came back to it erm at the end erm trying to pick up on where you left off and erm Martin was very non-committal at that point . |
| 19 | It is very easy to concentrate on the intonation only at the beginning , and then get slack and start imposing your mother tongue intonation on the new language . |
| 20 | It is worth checking what is available on video with a view to picking short sequences which could be used as mind stretchers occasionally at the beginning of a training session . |
| 21 | Reg Seekings , who came from No. 7 Commando , remembers an incident right at the beginning when they got fed up with erecting tents , that nearly erupted into a minor mutiny . |
| 22 | Parents can have such an enormous effect on your lives together that you need to work out the boundaries right at the beginning . |
| 23 | Roy said he would be in joint forces on the territory probably at the beginning of this quarter , erm , so far so good . |
| 24 | T : two things to establish for the writer at the beginning of the story one the situation what is the situation * at the beginning of the story * anybody what 's the situation Douglas * have you read the story Douglas S : no sir T : ah that wo n't help then will it who 's read the story what is the situation at the beginning SS : ( laughter ) T : £ is it Michael S : Carl T : what 's the situation at the beginning simple detail situation what where what is the story about at the beginning * have you read it S : no sir T : right who 's read it * Sarah ( Walsh 1987 : 82 ) |
| 25 | Offred 's meanderings are glued back into chronological order , which puts the flimsiest part of the book right at the beginning . |
| 26 | This would explain why most people fail to develop symptoms right at the beginning of the infestation . |
| 27 | ( You will find such information usually at the beginning of a book — though some books have details of publication on the last page instead . ) |
| 28 | If you can get the composition right at the beginning then you can concentrate on the figures . |
| 29 | If you can get the composition right at the beginning then you can concentrate on the figures . |
| 30 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |