Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] at the beginning " in BNC.

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1 Strategy 1 involves the purchase at the beginning of the year of all the shares in the stock index ( i.e. all the shares in the FTSE100 index with the appropriate weights ) .
2 I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to .
3 Fondant icing , royal icing and marzipan can either be made using the recipes at the beginning of the book or purchased ready-made ( see page 118 for a useful list of stores and mail-order suppliers ) .
4 Remember to adjust the straps at the beginning and the end of the season to accommodate either bare feet or boots .
5 They have to find out , for example , if their language drops the pronoun at the beginning of a sentence .
6 Alice Walker , the author , starts the letters at the beginning of the book , telling the story of a poor black 14 year old girl called Celie , and continues right to the end of the book when Celie is a middle aged woman .
7 WE encounter a difficulty at the beginning of this part of the book by directing our attention to the solution of ‘ legal ’ problems .
8 The Soviet Union had no equivalent forward bases for strategic deterrence or any other purpose until the Cuban revolution provided an opportunity at the beginning of the 1960s .
9 We do n't normally give the verdict at the beginning of the review , but what the heck : this MIDI preamp from Marshall had the collective pulse rate quickening by the minute , as rack and reviewers put each other through their paces .
10 This autumn Anne-Marie Kelly , a parishioner at the Cathedral and former student at S. Martin 's College , decided it was time to celebrate a Mass at the beginning of the Academic Year .
11 She had the idea of bringing staff , students , parents and all interested parties together to celebrate a Mass at the beginning of the Academic Year .
12 It would be useless to start compiling the leaflets at the beginning of July , but that 's what often happens .
13 W we forgot the notices at the beginning .
14 SINCE I joined the Company at the beginning of October I 've visited several locations and met most people at the Key Street office .
15 ‘ I only joined the ship at the beginning of this trip . ’
16 She only joined the class at the beginning of this term . ’
17 Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort .
18 Decide on a time each week to work on finishing off projects , and make a start at the beginning of the list , and work your way through it , ticking off the completed projects as you finish them .
19 This year South West London MEP Anita Pollock cut the tape at the beginning of the walk which visited 15 London Embassies .
20 You know the bit at the beginning goes or something stupid like that .
21 You 've got to put the clef at the beginning of it you really ought to .
22 The French imposed a protectorate at the beginning of this century ; in the 1940s and fifties Hassans father , King Muhammad V , which was won in 1956 .
23 We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that .
24 Gloucester lost a lineout at the beginning of the match , and Ubogu , the Bath prop , took the ball on the peel and drove through the middle .
25 The average home loan is now almost triple the £13,000 at the beginning of the Eighties .
26 The average home loan is now almost triple the £13,000 at the beginning of the Eighties .
27 Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem .
28 The letter H. To drop one 's aitches is to fail to pronounce the /h/ at the beginning or end of a word by saying , for instance , 'am instead of ham .
29 Their dominance outside the Americas grew into a world supremacy which reached a climax at the beginning of the first world war and began to crumble before the end of the second .
30 A list of the kadis in office in Anadolu in early Muharram 928/early December 1521 , forty years after the death of Mehmed II , shows the kadi of Bursa to be receiving 300 akce , while according to Gokbilgin , the kadi of Edirne was likewise receiving an allowance of only 300 akce a day at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century .
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