Example sentences of "[conj] at the beginning [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their natural reaction to this is to shed leaves , to cut maintenance back to the essential main frame as it were , and this may happen during August or at the beginning of September , long before the frosts which generally trigger leaf fall . |
| 2 | Three practices had employed an extra member of staff either during the first year or at the beginning of the second to work specifically on fundholding duties or to release the practice manager to do this . |
| 3 | However , since the whiteout point is where a blank pixel is first seen , this must be in or at the beginning of the flooding region . |
| 4 | Or at the beginning of this week . |
| 5 | As always Bernard , at the end of each season or at the beginning of a new season , one or two clubs go by the by ; we 've lost a couple this year have n't we ? |
| 6 | ‘ Who is she ? ’ ( the weak form is usually pronounced without except at the beginning of a sentence ) ‘ Which did he choose ? ’ |
| 7 | Baker denied that the situation in the Gagauz and Dnestr regions would create a problem in establishing diplomatic relations between the USA and Moldova , although at the beginning of February there had been reports of fighting between Dnestr separatists and Moldovan police . |
| 8 | Recall that at the beginning of this piece I briefly discussed what the representational theory of the mind has got right : that thoughts are not simple responses , reactions or reverberations to environmental stimulation — contrasting this with the case of the thermostat which automatically switches on and off at pre-set temperatures . |
| 9 | The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders . |
| 10 | Some report that at the beginning of the journey south , the party stayed at the little village of Cagnes-sur-Mer close to Nice . |
| 11 | He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy . |
| 12 | To descend from these heights to the commonplace , we have already seen that at the beginning of his time as abbot of Bec , Anselm had a problem about the rights of the abbey of Bec . |
| 13 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 14 | About two million acres of waste have been enclosed by act since 1700 , so that we may reasonably assume that at the beginning of the eighteenth century there were about seven million acres of ‘ waste ’ all told rather than the ten million estimated by Gregory King . |
| 15 | Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure . |
| 16 | Early in this chapter it was pointed out that at the beginning of the century British governments adopted an approach of relief of unemployment that largely ruled out the creation of specific employment opportunities . |
| 17 | Winyard reports , for example , that at the beginning of 1987 , when the UK unemployment rate was 11.9 per cent , fifty-one ‘ travel-to-work areas ’ had unemployment rates of more than 20 per cent . |
| 18 | There is also the story that at the beginning of the century a person used this lean-to to make sulphur matches which he sold locally . |
| 19 | The problem is that at the beginning of each new year , we either ignore the tradition of making resolutions , or we try to do too much at once and fail dismally . |
| 20 | It should also be noted that at the beginning of an assignment , the composition of both vendor and purchaser must be known to be able to consider taking advantage of this exclusion . |
| 21 | To illustrate , suppose that at the beginning of the year a UK investor exchanges sterling for dollars to invest in US securities . |
| 22 | A typical example is his remarks at the Cabinet meeting which approved the employment White Paper , when he suggested that at the beginning of a slump the Cabinet should declare a ‘ Salute the stomach ’ week along the lines of the wartime ‘ Salute the soldier ’ weeks , but with the emphasis on spending rather than saving . |
| 23 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
| 24 | Likewise Danby , in a debate in the House of Lords over Comprehension and Toleration in the spring of 1689 , said " That at the beginning of this Revolution only Church of England men were Ingaged in it " , although " now he perceived other persons fell in with it " . |
| 25 | So poorly known were the timbers in West Africa , that at the beginning of the century the houses and offices for British colonial civil servants were built from imported coniferous timber . |
| 26 | said that at the beginning of the year , I do n't know what way they predict this or whatever way they it goes you know |
| 27 | Er Foster and Allen are here and when I said that at the beginning of the programme it started a flurry of phone calls as to where they were . |
| 28 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 29 | And while the White House has publicly dismissed anti-war demonstrators as well-meaning but ‘ misguided individuals ’ , off the record , some presidential advisers reportedly consider the anti-war movement a danger to be dealt with , noting that ‘ its membership is mainstream and 100 times stronger now than at the beginning of Vietnam . ’ |
| 30 | Moral : never start a big warren system other than at the beginning of the day 's work , since you need to complete it if at all possible rather than have to extend the work into another day . |