Example sentences of "was the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the beginning of ACET . |
| 2 | It was the beginning of the summer term and on the noticeboard was that term 's list of the morning lectures for the first-year undergraduates . |
| 3 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 4 | He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship . |
| 5 | This was the beginning of her determination to learn sign language , which has been more of a boost to the deaf community over the years than any other gesture . |
| 6 | For the Prince it was the beginning of a love affair . |
| 7 | For the Prince , it was the beginning of a love affair , one that has taken him back to Italy on many occasions . |
| 8 | Here was the beginning of Canetti 's slow escape from the thrall of Karl Kraus . |
| 9 | From what I remember , we went down quite well and it was the beginning of quite an interesting career for the young Mr Jones . ’ |
| 10 | Bavarian reports spoke of ‘ paralysing horror ’ at the news , and-with typical exaggeration — of a mood comparable to that of 1917 , while others commented that workers were thinking it was the beginning of the end of the Party and the Third Reich , and that rumours were abroad about disturbances in Munich . |
| 11 | It was the beginning of the downward spiral in Hitler 's popularity . |
| 12 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |
| 13 | It sounds rather pompous , I dare say , but I think it was the beginning of understanding without knowing . |
| 14 | This was the beginning of the road to Hinkley Point . |
| 15 | This was the beginning of a protest that lasted continually for over five months . |
| 16 | For those who had criticized the flawed economics of the nuclear protagonists ' case for so long it was the beginning of their justification . |
| 17 | It was found by some local horsemen and this was the beginning of the end for the murderous publican . |
| 18 | It was not until March in 1782 that the brothers made the error that was the beginning of their undoing . |
| 19 | But the other thing of value that we came away with — much harder to define — was the beginning of an understanding of who 's out there : who your market might be ; what they are looking for ; and how you might approach them . |
| 20 | The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion . |
| 21 | Such was the beginning of the Edenderry Tennis Club whose president has always been the minister of the church . |
| 22 | ‘ Fred ’ was the beginning of my layers , the bottom strata of the well wherein lay my strength . |
| 23 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 24 | It was the beginning of his life with Jenny Blyth and the end of his life-long love-affair with Glasgow Celtic . |
| 25 | And that was the beginning of Skye 's climbing industry . |
| 26 | What happened during the years between circa 1880 and 1920 , was the beginning of a process whereby young workers were admitted to the public domain : their newly-defined significance meant that they required a new role , but one which had to be carefully circumscribed . |
| 27 | I now know that these were really Powers-Sallmas cards and that this was the beginning of computer technique . |
| 28 | One may argue that this was the beginning of ‘ unnatural ’ recording techniques . |
| 29 | It was the beginning of the end for many short Tillers who had started work as juveniles , reaping the reward of looking much younger than their years . |
| 30 | This was the beginning of the British tradition — Seaside Rock . |