Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the beginning " in BNC.

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1 A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis .
2 Practice varies , and it is good practice to find out from the beginning in order to avoid unpleasant surprises at a later date .
3 POPPET GREEN , in whose studio Basil Seal wakes up at the beginning of Evelyn Waugh 's Put Out More Flags , was , we learn , a remarkably silly girl .
4 This however is unlikely , and that the idea of decorating a metope with a figured scene goes back to the beginning of the Doric order is shown by the painted terracotta examples of the seventh century ( above , p. 13 ) .
5 How far the glider rolls over into the beginning of the spin depends to a large extent on the amount of yaw present .
6 As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century .
7 When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines .
8 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 .
9 If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π .
10 By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves .
11 It 's Radio Nottingham it 's eight minutes to two Ann Green from Mansfield got the er family ticket to go to Alton Towers for spotting the firework noise popping up at the beginning of Billy Joe Spears .
12 If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem .
13 The examination schedule drawn up at the beginning of the test may need to be modified in the light of findings in the earlier stages of the test .
14 The changes in legislation have been dramatic since the mid-eighties the majority of changes coming in at the beginning of nineteen ninety three with the E C directives .
15 Then , to his astonishment , the video ran on to the beginning of the same film — which was , of course , quite ‘ impossible ’ .
16 The popular four-piece group Starz split up at the beginning of the year .
17 Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one .
18 They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising .
19 Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May .
20 There is an absence of weathering of any surface features , indicating that Mercury 's atmosphereless state stretches back towards the beginning , and there is no evidence for any subsurface volatiles .
21 An employee of the Ministry of Finances pointed out at the beginning of 1856 that Russia 's lowest social groups were far more heavily taxed than their counterparts in other countries .
22 First is to be contrasted the mortgage and the charge and in this context charge is being used in its technical meaning and not in the broader sense set out at the beginning of this chapter .
23 It is possible to study for an honours degree in Italian , or for the variety of joint honours degrees set out at the beginning of the Arts section ( with another modern European language , for example , or with a number of other Arts subjects , or with Business Studies ) , and Italian may also be taken as a major or minor part of the MA(General) and the MA ( General Honours ) .
24 This is the process that programmers go through at the beginning of a job to understand existing code .
25 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 .
26 Laudable as these aims are however , they ignore the situation set out at the beginning of this chapter , namely that the majority of rural inhabitants are very satisfied and happy with their life style , and have consciously chosen to live in the countryside .
27 As Mandy Merck points out at the beginning of an acute and informative summary , in recent times the theory of sexual difference has exerted a profound influence on psychoanalytically inspired cultural analysis ( ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 2 ) .
28 And what will he do to ensure that in future years the system pays up at the beginning of the year , not a third of the way through it or later ?
29 The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’
30 The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them .
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