Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] beginning [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Complaints follow errors in the diet especially at the beginning of a warm spell after cold weather .
2 Thus , you may need to introduce your pupils to common variants — especially at the beginning of words : Choice becomes more complex once we consider vowels : the sound of the diphthong a can be symbolised in several different ways ( see also pages 32–3 ) : ay ( day ) ; a-e ( make ) ; ai ( wait ) , au ( gauge ) ; ei ( neighbour ) ; ey ( they ) .
3 Especially at the beginning of the game .
4 Of course , in England we were used to er especially at the beginning of the war , we had tea in the afternoon of course , and er when we got there it was dinner at night , with you know , meat and vegetables every night , that sort of thing , so it was quite a surprise .
5 By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves .
6 If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem .
7 That proof showed that general relativity is only an incomplete theory : it can not tell us how the universe started off , because it predicts that all physical theories , including itself , break down at the beginning of the universe .
8 It can be dangerous to over-exert yourself greatly at the beginning of your fitness programme .
9 The reason we know it 's not it was nineteen sixteen er that had been killed was that he was home obviously at the beginning of the war he went off and then someone named left a house well left they died and the proceeds of the house were left to Mrs Miss 's grandmother .
10 Tawney , on the occasion of the celebrations of the District 's twenty-first anniversary in June 1934 , perceptively recognised that the District ‘ … was only at the beginning of their task … ’ but was perhaps a little wide of the mark in claiming that the ‘ …
11 We are only at the beginning of a change which became more conspicuous later .
12 Daiwa suspected that something was amiss only at the beginning of this year , when it uncovered evidence that attempts had been made to forge security depositary receipts .
13 The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century .
14 ‘ As yet , ’ said the Inspector imperturbably , ‘ we 're only at the beginning of our enquiries .
15 Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century .
16 It was only at the beginning of July that she was again taken ill .
17 So at the beginning of 1846 , 10 years after his apprenticeship had finished and then aged 31 , Benjamin Titford was still a bachelor — but only just .
18 It was a valuable office in the early eighteenth century , and it was still so at the beginning of the next century .
19 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 ) .
20 Just as there was a great outpouring of the Spirit at the coming of the Messiah — prophecy , divine begetting , voice from heaven , baptism and so forth ; so at the beginning of the age of the Church 's witness-bearing to Jesus we find a similar intensive manifestation of the Spirit .
21 When the supply comes onto the market , right so this thing here is the expectation of price in P T , when the supply comes onto the market right and that expectation is formed at T minus one , right so at the beginning of the year farmers make some forecast or some expectation of prices when the crop will come onto the market in T , right and then they form that expectation or that prediction , right , at the beginning of the period , or at the end of the last one , T minus one .
22 So at the beginning of 1990 , Mike Rex — on secondment from AECI — and chemical engineering student Joe Masih started charting the two — hourly process operator analyses and found a lot of variation .
23 The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them .
24 We did n't even realize that they organized their labour collectively , until Panic Buying ( a great '70s pastime , Panic Buying — of salt , sugar and so on ) set in at the beginning of November .
25 This example page , which is also set out at one second of runtime per line , shows that the original sync sound transfers continue without a break , but additional background sound ( voices ) is to be faded in at the beginning of shot 18 .
26 A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 .
27 The housing charity , Shelter , was in at the beginning of the Housing Advice Centre movement and the Child poverty Action Group has been extremely active in the field of welfare rights .
28 Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century .
29 The changes in legislation have been dramatic since the mid-eighties the majority of changes coming in at the beginning of nineteen ninety three with the E C directives .
30 The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’
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