Example sentences of "beginning [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip told what is , in fact , an extraordinary tale beginning as the not uncommon ( for those times ) attempt to rescue a poor but talented boy from his circumstances and ending as some sort of love story . |
| 2 | In reality , another story is just beginning for the victims of survivors , and until recently it was often a lonely or difficult one . |
| 3 | The third period , beginning after the Second World War , had distinctive features of its own , above all in Western Europe : a greater degree of government intervention in the economy , particularly in the construction of welfare states ; a continuation , and in some countries an extension , of wartime planning , and an expansion of public ownership or of various forms of ‘ social partnership ’ . |
| 4 | Some of this expansion was through organic growth , but increased concentration is mainly accounted for by a series of merger waves beginning towards the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 6 | It were beginning of the year since that bike cos February March sold it . |
| 7 | Initial trials are beginning with the Press Association , which will send news and pictures via satellite to six customers . |
| 8 | Grain-importing regions now suffered , beginning with the Donbas and then the Moscow region . |
| 9 | Beginning with the transfer of power in India and Pakistan in 1947 , through the retreat from Egypt , and the rapid withdrawal from Africa in the Macleod period in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the rapidity and lack of tension with which Britain shed her imperial domain is perhaps the most notable of tributes to national stability and , possibly , maturity in the post-war world . |
| 10 | Beginning with the making of the world , he guides his audience through the pageant of primitive man ( ‘ worshipping snakes or trees ’ ) with an urgency that for flickering moments recalls The Waste Land . |
| 11 | Thus the Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ‘ took discrimination out of the market place and gave it the sanction of the state . |
| 12 | Beginning with the phenomena of sense , and by the use of our explanatory framework , we form hypotheses about their causes . |
| 13 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ It vanished quite slowly , beginning with the end of the tail , and ending with the grin , which remained some time after the rest of it had gone . ’ |
| 15 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 16 | The one-eyed porter whom I have known from childhood ; the station-master who ranges us all in ranks , beginning with the Duke and ending with a sad , frayed and literary man ; the little chaise in which the two old ladies from Barlton drive up to get their paper of an evening , the servant from the inn , the newsboy whose mother keeps a sweetshop — they are all my friends . |
| 17 | A set of Easter tables drawn up by Cyril of Alexandria ( 376–444 ) was accompanied by a consecutive set of years beginning with the Emperor Diocletian and his persecution in AD 284 , but when in AD 525 a Scythian monk living in Rome , Dionysius Exiguus , prepared a continuation of Cyril 's tables , at the request of Pope John I , he felt that it was inappropriate to reckon from the reign of this enemy of Christianity , and he chose instead to date the years from Christ 's Incarnation . |
| 18 | It follows that a just society must set its policies and write its laws to ensure that everyone , beginning with the least advantaged and most vulnerable , has an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net resources allocated to health . |
| 19 | Beginning with the whirling bustle of the theatre scenes , Pierre L'homme 's camera and Rappeneau 's eye for detail turn more intimate moments like the balcony scene into a wondrous symphony of white light flecked with shadows . |
| 20 | A tribunal can not consider an unfair dismissal complaint unless it is presented during a three-month period beginning with the effective date of termination . |
| 21 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 22 | Since the hypothesis is a tentative supposition , it can normally be stated by beginning with the word ‘ that ’ . |
| 23 | Beginning with the fall of a Galactic Empire , paralleling the Roman one , the books yearn for an enlightened Second Empire . |
| 24 | Foam-breathing would have many uses , beginning with the use of oxygenated foam for instant well-being . |
| 25 | All the more remarkable , then , that Honda should this year have upstaged its European class competitors by introducing standard-fit driver 's side airbags to no fewer than 13 models of its range , beginning with the £11,750 Civic VEi . |
| 26 | If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … . |
| 27 | But that made it no less a dire experience for those who found their world gradually being pressurized , slowly becoming conditioned by a series of events beginning with the familiar friendly knock on the door — as dramatized in Thames Television 's play Not Waving But Drowning , produced and directed by Polly Bide , based on a real-life case history . |
| 28 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |
| 29 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |
| 30 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |