Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the beginning of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former are due to be heard together at the beginning of December , a hearing at which the Bar Council will again be represented , and it is clearly too early to predict a result or to consider the implications in detail . |
| 2 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 3 | A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 4 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
| 6 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 7 | Both Palm Springs , California , and West Palm Beach , Florida , boasted magnificent Spanish stations , built respectively at the beginning of the century and the 1920s . |
| 8 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
| 9 | Wellcome 's share price rose sharply at the beginning of the year after the announcement that a combination of two of its drugs , Retrovir ( zidovudine or AZT ) and Zovirax ( acyclovir ) , halved the number of deaths amongst Aids patients compared to zidovudine alone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 12 | Patients were reviewed every two months and the duodenum inspected endoscopically at the beginning of the trial , at approximately 4 , 8 , and 12 months , and if the patient developed recurrent dyspepsia that persisted after three days of simple antacid treatment ( Maalox , maximum 30 tablets per month ) . |
| 13 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
| 14 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That proof showed that general relativity is only an incomplete theory : it can not tell us how the universe started off , because it predicts that all physical theories , including itself , break down at the beginning of the universe . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
| 19 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 20 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 21 | The ante-natal clinic proper , beyond the red mouth and throat of reception , was , like the whole maternity wing , part of a military hospital added hastily at the beginning of the last war , in anticipation of hosts of wounded soldiers who had never come there . |
| 22 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 23 | 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ? |
| 24 | ( Jockeys do not often look backwards at the beginning of a race . ) |
| 25 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | London 's latest ‘ five star ’ property is The Regent , which opened quietly at the beginning of the year under general manager Wolfgang Nitschke . |
| 28 | We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries . |
| 29 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 30 | 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 . |