Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at the beginning " in BNC.

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1 This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) .
2 You need read no further than the picture captions listed at the beginning of the book to realise what a treat you have in store ; Norman Giving An Interview , Norma starts a pancake race , Norma bellringing and — my personal favourite — Norma and John Shop For Bathroom Fittings .
3 This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) .
4 Following extensive refurbishment , which includes shop floor reorganisation , a new lighting system and distinctive new green shelving , St George 's Gallery Books reopened at the beginning of the summer .
5 The naturally ‘ active ’ light of the female is the generalized , collective light described at the beginning of the chapter .
6 Trevor Hold in his recent anthology A Northamptonshire Garland , identifies the house described in Leapor 's poem ‘ Crumble Hall ’ , as Edgcote House , on the grounds that the carved heads described at the beginning of the poem correspond to a drawing of Edgcote House by Peter Tillemans ( c. 1684–1733 ) .
7 The original intention was to provide a critical accompaniment to government promises of action on the inner cities made at the beginning of this Parliament .
8 Clearly paper will not be abandoned altogether and it is likely that trivial notes of the type cited at the beginning of this article will invariably be recorded as manuscripts .
9 But the answer to the question posed at the beginning of this chapter , whether her upbringing in France made this inevitable , must be no .
10 The work commenced at the beginning of November and it will run through until May 1994 .
11 As regrettably is often the case where Rent Act issues are involved , the answer to the issue identified at the beginning of this judgment requires an undesirably tortuous journey through a number of statutory provisions .
12 Regular exercise helps to strengthen and thicken bones , especially the amounts and types of exercise discussed at the beginning of this chapter ; and for those less agile , there are exercises recommended for the prevention of osteoporosis .
13 One can visit the town of Kartuzy , the centre of Kashubian folklore , and the picturesque Wdydze Kiszewskie with its fascinating open air museum established at the beginning of the century .
14 Are your accounting policies shown at the beginning of the notes to the accounts ?
15 The principal reasons for this state of affairs lie in the explanations given at the beginning of this chapter ; scholars with museum backgrounds laid the foundations for an artefact-based subject in the first half of the twentieth century and introduced the strong historical background to such studies .
16 Mr Hall says Timex produces more goods now than before the strike , and he has received ‘ a fair number ’ of job applications from workers sacked at the beginning of the dispute , who could find no other job in recession-hit Dundee .
17 8.4 left Fake ‘ Lombardic ’ brooch ( MLA 1930.11–6.1 ) , one of a number of pieces made at the beginning of the century .
18 These points reinforce the generalizations made at the beginning of this chapter , that housewives approach housework as work , analogous with any other kind of job .
19 At the outset it is necessary to reiterate the point made at the beginning of this chapter , namely , that accurate up-to-date and spatially relevant data on rural employment , like rural population , are difficult to obtain .
20 This provides an alternative perspective but still one in which man and hazards interact , which is underlined by part of the quotation used at the beginning of Hewitt 's ( 1983 ) volume :
21 first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record .
22 It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life .
23 The leader announced at the beginning that complete freedom of speech was allowed but speeches must be kept short .
24 To me , he wrote on 10 February as follows , the invective being tempered by the desire expressed at the beginning that we should have in due course a prolonged tête-à-tête :
25 There is a curious meeting held at the beginning of each season called the United Kingdom Championships , which actually is an event to cater for the up-and-coming athletes and bears no relation to a British championship .
26 In summary , language checklists may provide a very practical and relatively quick form of assessment which can be used for a variety of purposes described at the beginning of Chapter 6 .
27 Our emphasis on human nature outlined at the beginning of this study provides a large part of the answer .
28 As well as its new LaserJet network printers and network boards launched at the beginning of the month , Hewlett-Packard Co added four new high-end production-capacity printers , the HP 5000 series .
29 Of course , it may be argued that the Cash paid at the beginning of the year relates to the last quarter 's electricity for the old financial year and so this financial year includes four payments for electricity ; thus , the year 's payments do reflect the cost of electricity .
30 The problems outlined ( they are not imaginary ones ) in the paragraph before the last overlap the third group mentioned at the beginning of this chapter .
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