Example sentences of "to the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we are back to the beginning … |
| 2 | Behind the truant husband Marmeladov , perhaps the greatest feat of instant creation in all Dostoevsky as he buttonholes Raskolnikov in the pub with hay sticking to his clothes and vodka at hand — behind that immortal Russian drunkard stretches a long line of urban dropouts and psychological cripples , of paupers and other victims of the ravages of early capitalism ( think of Petersburg as several decades behind Manchester ) , of the ‘ insulted and injured ’ in the novel of that title and elsewhere , back to the beginning , back to Mr Devushkin with his teapot and pipe and his ‘ fearful lapses ’ over the bottle . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 4 | The cuttings date back to the beginning of the 1980s : ‘ If you read these stories day by day , you simply do n't realise how many there are . |
| 5 | In the three months to the beginning of May , the all-items index , measured in terms of SDRs , a basket of currencies , gained 15% . |
| 6 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 7 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 8 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 9 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 10 | So , I have always to go back to the beginning if I want to sort something out . |
| 11 | Only seven Peps beat the deposit return of £137 over three years while nine Peps beat the £109 deposit return over the year to the beginning of this month . |
| 12 | ‘ To be on the safe side , I 've been back to the beginning of the year . |
| 13 | It is a long haul back to the beginning . |
| 14 | So when I 've finished the first draft , I go back to the beginning to check that it all hangs together . |
| 15 | Once you have established a clear picture of your ideal ( and realized its limitations ) you work back step by step to the beginning and prepare a priority list for your development plan . |
| 16 | Although the word aromatherapy was coined in the 1920s by the French chemist René Gattefossé , first we shall aim the historical telescope much further back in time to The Beginning . |
| 17 | If you transgress , go back to the beginning of your intent and start again . |
| 18 | To move between prompts and branches of the Command Tree : use a combination of the arrowed direction keys() OR tap the Tab key to move left to right and back to the beginning again |
| 19 | Tap the Spacebar to move left to right and back to the beginning again |
| 20 | First , you can bounce right back to the beginning and lose all your powers . |
| 21 | Turn back to the beginning , and print the child 's name in the space on the title page , using ordinary , not capital letters . |
| 22 | Whitechurch was shown the works by Mr G. Coker , chief draughtsman : ‘ There are two chief ways of seeing the works , either to begin at the finished coach and work backwards to the details , or to go to the beginning first and work upwards , but , at all events , you shall see as much as we can show you in a day ’ . |
| 23 | Returning to the beginning of the century : the idea of a coloured label to signify a quality recording came from Raphoff , a Gramophone retailer in St Petersburg , in April 1901 . |
| 24 | As there are only a finite number of edge pieces and the process RU can take only one edge piece into a new ‘ edge piece ’ position , this sequence must cycle back to the beginning and we denote this ‘ 7-cycle ’ as ( FR , UF , UL , UB , UR , BR , DR ) . |
| 25 | The Library Association is deeply concerned that the imposition of these bans constitutes a major breach of the traditional principle that public libraries should be a neutral and non-partisan service , a principle which goes back to the beginning of the public libraries in the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Professor Harris uses SEM in his own long-standing research into the transition of early people from their hunter-gatherer way of life to the beginning of agriculture , between 10 000 and 9000 years ago . |
| 27 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 28 | For Mary it resulted not only in domestic upheaval , leading to the beginning of the break-up of her marriage , but to her early death . |
| 29 | At any point the ‘ grandmother ’ can turn round and anyone seen to be moving has to return to the beginning . |
| 30 | But if we go back to square one ( and so back to the roots , back to the foundations , back to the beginning ) , we will find a faith which is solid and secure . |