Example sentences of "[verb] begin at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
2 | But first this lunchtime , the trial has begun at the High court in Glasgow of two youths accused of murdering the Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon . |
3 | Summing up has begun at the High Court in the case of a woman who claims that a routine jaw operation left her paralysed for life . |
4 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
5 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |
6 | Because when I read the leaflet on that crucial afternoon , it turned out that I could n't start swallowing the pills on any old day : the course had to begin at a particular point in my menstrual cycle . |
7 | We are shown certain words in the opening one and told that we " have begun at the highest level " ( p. 197 ) . |
8 | But now you have to begin at the other end and tell the story in a straight run through the eyes , or over the shoulder , of the " detective " figure . |