Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the outset " in BNC.
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| 1 | Systematic multielement regional geochemical mapping of the United Kingdom landmass by the BGS 's Geochemical Survey Programme ( GSP ) has from the outset in 1968 provided regional data on the uranium levels of stream waters and on pH and conductivity , subsequently augmented by measurements of fluoride content and alkalinity . |
| 2 | With regard to the United Kingdom 's special treatment in the context of Economic and Monetary Union , it is sometimes forgotten that the EEC Treaty has from the outset required , under Articles 103 and 105 , co-ordination of economic policy and exchange rate policy , and in Opinion 1/91 the European Court also suggested that the attainment of Economic and Monetary Union was already a Community objective ; it should therefore hardly be a surprise that the ECU has been defined in a series of regulations enacted under Article 235 . |
| 3 | Her sensitivity at all times to what will run in Cabinet is genuine , even though she always lets colleagues know what she wants at the outset of any discussion . |
| 4 | So too does his sometime-sidekick on this journey : a ‘ Soverican ’ jazz drummer-cum-taxidriver named Sasha Zim who is besotted with the unhinged madness of New York and proclaims from the outset that ‘ Broadway is mother of all Broadways all over the world , mother of lights of Picadilly Circus and of Place Pigalle and Teatralny Ploschtchad . |
| 5 | As we see in the passage above , Spenser also establishes from the outset the sense that Irish questions participate in larger questions of reformation and the establishment of civilisation . |
| 6 | This establishes at the outset for both parties the criterion for evaluation of work done . |
| 7 | The attitude of the family has implications for the style of initial assessment carried out by the psychiatrist ; if the psychiatrist realises from the outset that other agencies are involved then consent of the family for reports may be obtained at an early stage . |
| 8 | But if , at the time the shares are subscribed they carry no voting rights for , say , the first five years , this does not give rise to a chargeable event when the five years have elapsed , because the entitlement to vote after five years exists from the outset . |
| 9 | Matthew states from the outset that the purpose of this child will be to offer salvation from sin or , in other words , bring people back to God . |
| 10 | Tension eases with the passage of time , no matter how unbearable it seems at the outset . |
| 11 | But it 's clear that no amount of research will answer what seems at the outset to be a simple question , that is , ‘ Is golf good for the environment ? ’ the reply has to be , ‘ It depends . ’ |
| 12 | An additional incentive is that a garden , in contrast to its associated historic building , does not always need substantial sums for major fabric repairs at the outset and can be revived over a longer period of time . |
| 13 | ‘ Scientific writers , novelists and poets , ’ she insists at the outset , ‘ can all be found putting forward similar views of humanity , society and nature , often by means of similar language and imagery , ’ |
| 14 | Dunning and Murphy have tried to argue that violent street-gangs , whose antics led to several alarmed inquiries around the turn of the century , were likely to have been present at football matches from the outset . |
| 15 | For instance , although he borrows the concept of mood from linguistics , he recognizes from the outset that , in contrast to ordinary language , narrative only knows the indicative mood ( there is no imperative or subjunctive forms of narrative ) , and that if his use of the term is to have any value at all it must be ‘ stretched ’ and given a metaphorical function . |
| 16 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |