Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sullom Voe 's major tank maintenance programme was completed at the beginning of last month . |
| 2 | If this proposal was implemented at the beginning of a new parliament , the timetable would allow for increasing tax cuts to be made throughout the parliament , with the largest tax cuts coming just prior to a general election . |
| 3 | The announcement was made at the beginning of October . |
| 4 | The service was revived at the beginning of the 1960s by the injection of government funding and was stimulated by honourable mention from two major inquiries . |
| 5 | Much publicity was given at the beginning of this year to claims that large numbers of offences are committed by offenders who are already on bail as a result of other charges . |
| 6 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 7 | Their first league game was played at the beginning of September , at the Glenpatrick Road pitch . |
| 8 | A careful clinical questionnaire was defined at the beginning of this study , each patient being asked about the presence of heartburn , regurgitation , and dysphagia . |
| 9 | The row was signalled at the beginning of the year , and when the commissioner went public , it can have been no surprise , whatever ministers said . ’ |
| 10 | The way towards permanent absentee government was prepared at the beginning of Edward 's reign when the king was actually in Gascony . |
| 11 | Serious consideration was given at the beginning of the year to the present public , parliamentary and media relations . |
| 12 | Reacting to requests from Course Leaders and Heads of Department , the first in a possible series of workshops for Course Leaders was held at the beginning of June . |
| 13 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |
| 14 | At the National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) an early CAI program was designed at the beginning of the seventies in conjunction with the George Washington University Medical Centre . |
| 15 | Against the strong objections of Slovenia and Croatia ( but ultimately without their veto ) , the retention ratio system was replaced at the beginning of 1986 by a system which claimed to be directed towards the establishment of a free market in foreign exchange . |
| 16 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |