Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former are due to be heard together at the beginning of December , a hearing at which the Bar Council will again be represented , and it is clearly too early to predict a result or to consider the implications in detail . |
| 2 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 4 | Both Palm Springs , California , and West Palm Beach , Florida , boasted magnificent Spanish stations , built respectively at the beginning of the century and the 1920s . |
| 5 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
| 6 | Wellcome 's share price rose sharply at the beginning of the year after the announcement that a combination of two of its drugs , Retrovir ( zidovudine or AZT ) and Zovirax ( acyclovir ) , halved the number of deaths amongst Aids patients compared to zidovudine alone . |
| 7 | Patients were reviewed every two months and the duodenum inspected endoscopically at the beginning of the trial , at approximately 4 , 8 , and 12 months , and if the patient developed recurrent dyspepsia that persisted after three days of simple antacid treatment ( Maalox , maximum 30 tablets per month ) . |
| 8 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
| 9 | A : to give him and he was writing just at the beginning he was — writing the whole — for each year of his life he wrote something in that had — had been invented or + |
| 10 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 11 | The ante-natal clinic proper , beyond the red mouth and throat of reception , was , like the whole maternity wing , part of a military hospital added hastily at the beginning of the last war , in anticipation of hosts of wounded soldiers who had never come there . |
| 12 | In an extended piece of discourse , a common procedure , known as anaphora , is for the identity of someone or something to be given once at the beginning , and thereafter referred to as she or he or it . |
| 13 | We tend to look only at the beginning and end of a decision . |
| 14 | ( Jockeys do not often look backwards at the beginning of a race . ) |
| 15 | London 's latest ‘ five star ’ property is The Regent , which opened quietly at the beginning of the year under general manager Wolfgang Nitschke . |
| 16 | We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries . |
| 17 | The warning note that it was all going to be very different this time was sounded right at the beginning , with the efforts to establish a minority government . |
| 18 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 19 | But the fall began almost at the beginning of 1966 ! |
| 20 | It was only at this stage that the dowry of the bride , which would usually have included both jewels and the title deeds to land , was actually handed over by the bride 's parents though details of the dowry would have been settled right at the beginning at Stage 1 of the proceedings . |
| 21 | In the 690s Aethelred granted land in Hwiccian territory to Oftfor , bishop of Worcester , seemingly without reference to any local prince ( CS 76 : S 76 ; CS 75 : S 77 ) ; Aethelbald was certainly doing so at the beginning of his reign in 716–7 ( CS 137 : S 102 ) . |
| 22 | My apologies for not saying so at the beginning . |
| 23 | This is largely because money allocated centrally at the beginning of the financial year does not usually reach the city itself until the autumn . |
| 24 | Analysis of the moment-by-moment changes in performance over a ten-minute period has shown that while the sleep-deprived subject may be performing well at the beginning , all responses are slowed towards the end , as well as frank lapses occurring . |
| 25 | Not as much as I would like to be , however , as the night class I joined in September 1991 did not have enough support to run again at the beginning of this year . |
| 26 | Yes , you should go right at the beginning |
| 27 | The precise location of the squamous columnar mucosal junction , measured in centimetres from the incisors , was carefully defined both at the beginning and at the end of the endoscopy . |
| 28 | In the last few years , however , it has emerged that the laws of science may hold even at the beginning of the universe . |
| 29 | In that case the laws of physics would hold even at the beginning of the universe , so God would not have had the freedom to choose the initial conditions . |
| 30 | The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke . |