Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] beginning " in BNC.

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1 Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy .
2 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ?
3 The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established .
4 Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter .
5 And if we look at the implications er West Yorkshire which were touched on in the beginning of this part of the debate .
6 Then , to his astonishment , the video ran on to the beginning of the same film — which was , of course , quite ‘ impossible ’ .
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