Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What seemed so hard at the beginning was the limitation that calling her Down 's and handicapped would have on her new life . |
| 2 | That was why he had been so hostile at the beginning , why he 'd known all about the family . |
| 3 | Yes I did n't really have a good look through it because I got stuck on a an article that was so good at the beginning |
| 4 | Armed with their texts of the Lion 's own travel guide to the town , Our English Watering Place , The Lionisers were arrayed in their seaside appeared , no less excited at the beginning of their week 's holiday than had been Auguste 's pupils . |
| 5 | It is nonetheless a matter of deep regret that the Board has had to depart from this project and that the first of these care centres on Whalsay , which would have been opened in November nineteen ninety one had the agreement been left unaltered , was still not open at the beginning of this month . |
| 6 | You 're at your most passionate at the beginning of July and a honeymoon at this time will be a wonderful experience . |
| 7 | Usually , Jay was studiously sober at the beginning of an evening with Lucy . |
| 8 | The Staatskanzlei , which controlled the day-to-day administration of foreign policy , had already been reorganised and made rather more efficient at the beginning of his period in office . |
| 9 | For example , it may appear at the beginning of a statement ( You know , it 's time we talked ) , but it is distinctly unusual at the beginning of a question ( You know , is it 6 o clock ? ) or a command ( * You know , shut the door ) , or an exclamatory or minor sentence ( one does not say , after banging one 's thumb with a hammer , * You know , damn ! ) . |
| 10 | Concern to spread any benefits of reform more evenly across the economy was also evident at the beginning of 1990 , when the Bank of Indonesia restricted the availability of credit in an attempt to reduce inflationary pressure . |
| 11 | ‘ It took an awful lot of my powers as Chairman of Academic Review and Resources Committee to steer that course through because it did mean a lot of resource implications that were n't obvious at the beginning . |
| 12 | It was equally hostile at the beginning of the 1977 one , but when no dramatic evidence of success materialised , such as the lights going out across Belfast , it continued hostile . |
| 13 | As well as being fully adequate at the beginning , the text ends at a suitable and sufficient point ; the possible significance of this can evidently easily be missed . |
| 14 | But the Code is quite explicit at the beginning : |
| 15 | According to the Prussian ambassador to St Petersburg , he was relatively confident at the beginning of February 1848 that he could prevent the dissatisfaction which was mounting elsewhere in Europe from penetrating his domains . |
| 16 | Almost non-existent at the beginning of the 1980s , rail carryings of this commodity had assumed significant proportions by the end of the decade , showing Railfreight both eager and able to adapt to new opportunities . |
| 17 | I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast . |
| 18 | wore off a bit , I mean there was erm , everybody was feeling very patriotic at the beginning of the war but after four or five years the erm novelty wore off |
| 19 | This trend has a maximum deviation from true age of about nine hundred years too recent at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC . |