Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the kind remarks at the beginning of his question . |
| 2 | The second part starts at the beginning of Term 5 , before the first teaching practice ; it continues for four further weeks at the beginning of term 6 in the same teaching practice school . |
| 3 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
| 4 | Under s179 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or after 1 October 1993 , Target is again treated as disposing of assets acquired intra-group in the preceding six years , but the gain or loss accrues at the beginning of the accounting period in which Target leaves the vendor group ( see s179 TCGA and s89 Finance Act 1993 ) . |
| 5 | In preposed theme , the gloss tag occurs at the beginning of the clause , in postposed theme , it occurs at the end of the clause . |
| 6 | Brompton Road , SW3 Long Acre , WC2 Sale starts at the beginning of January . |
| 7 | Biggar Gasworks Museum opens at the beginning of June . |
| 8 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |
| 9 | The following example occurs at the beginning of a chapter : |
| 10 | Bachilor 's licence appears at the beginning of a number of works . |
| 11 | Owner-occupiers tend to delay childbearing because they face heavy housing costs at the beginning of their marriage . |
| 12 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 13 | The Soviet fixation-on Western-sponsored alliance formation in the Middle East induced great scepticism in the USSR towards regional plans for security coordination developed among the Gulf states at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 14 | If Hark the Herald goes at the beginning , it 'll need a fanfare wo n't it ? |
| 15 | But it is still dominated by the attitude Parlee advises at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 16 | It is sensible for the term to be stated to be from and including a specific date to avoid the uncertainty caused by the general law that a term which is to commence " from " a certain date in fact commences at the beginning of the following day , with the term lasting during the whole anniversary of the day from which it is granted , unless there is some contra-indication in the lease . |
| 17 | Rolle stresses at the beginning the joy which is the obverse of the discipline : But although it is characteristic of Rolle 's writing to stress the joy of the contemplative , it would be a mistake to suppose that he ever suggests that the passage to it is easy : At the very start he warns against the specific danger attendant on solitary life — hallucination ; a point to remember when considering the arguments of those who tend to be distrustful of Rolle 's theology . |