Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change has been recommended by the Legal Services Ombudsman , and will require a change in the law , expected to come into force at the beginning of 1994 . |
| 2 | When the Institute 's working party on openness reported to Council at the beginning of the year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 13 ) , it endorsed the idea of letting the sunshine in on some of the Institute 's important but less controversial public interest functions . |
| 3 | These connections suggest that what a woman says about housework at the beginning of her interview does not only reflect on the mode of feeling-expression general in her class-specific linguistic code . |
| 4 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
| 5 | The Protocol has been signed by over 40 countries and came into force at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 6 | Public contracts — a new directive covering supply contracts over £140,000 came into force at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 7 | The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations [ COSHH ] which came into force at the beginning of October , not only relate to preventing risks from chemicals , but also to protection from biological hazards such as Legionella . |
| 8 | The Health & Safety Commission ( HSC ) has published a guide to the new workplace ( Health , Safety and Welfare ) Regulations 1992 , which came into force at the beginning of 1993 . |
| 9 | With Britain playing a prominent role , government officials met in Geneva at the beginning of December 1958 to discuss , without being bound in any way by their own governments , the possibility of rescuing a smaller free trade area from the wreck of Maudling . |
| 10 | Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River . |
| 11 | This comment was made in Cairo at the beginning of a visit to the region which also involved tense discussions in Israel [ see p. 37760 ] . |
| 12 | A long-term government plan came to fruition at the beginning of 1990 when it was announced that Taiwan was to apply to accede to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 13 | His return route is not known but he was much quicker than on his way out as he arrived in Moscow at the beginning of February , 1718 , only 8 months after he left Peking . |
| 14 | Ms Gibson claimed she tried to telephone when she arrived in Marbella at the beginning of the month but could not get through because her friend 's number was engaged all night . |
| 15 | Before the National Government banned Britons going to Spain at the beginning of 1937 there were already more than 600 men in the British Battalion of the International Brigade , organized by the Communist Party of Great Britain , while others , such as George Orwell , identified with the Independent Labour Party activists who fought with POUM , a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist group . |
| 16 | And yet he could see how different it must have looked in the summer , how it would have appealed to Alex at the beginning of his supposed new start , and to Lesley-Jane in the throes of her first grown-up affair . |
| 17 | The 1082 connection is also spurious and the first mention of the Priory is in 1146 , implying it was founded by Durham at the beginning of the twelfth century . |
| 18 | Romanticism has had an immensely powerful impact on the modern outlook , and we shall see in the next chapter how it fed into theology at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Coco Chanel was born in France at the beginning of the century . |
| 20 | Of the staff employed in universities at the beginning of 1854 50 per cent had left their posts by the end of 1862 . |
| 21 | Set in Uppsala at the beginning of the century , it tells the story of Bergman 's parents , and will be made for two different formats : as a four-part series for televsion , and as two feature films for cinemas . |
| 22 | Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920 ; Lady More recalled some of Sir Jasper 's memories ; Colonel Sykes remembered that , as a boy , the engine driver used to allow him to drive the train when he returned to school at the beginning of term ; and Mrs Lucy Hemmings had regularly tested the milk carried by the train for the Creamery . |
| 23 | In retaliation for the economic blockade of Slovenia imposed by Serbia at the beginning of December 1989 [ see p. 37131 ] , the Slovene government on Feb. 22 decided to withhold payment of 15 per cent of the republic 's contribution to the federal budget , representing the amount designated for subsidies to the Serbian economy . |
| 24 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 25 | This ‘ doctrine invented in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century ’ was then exported to other parts of the world as a result of colonial expansion , and this — rather than any popular revolt against colonial rule — accounts for the nationalist movements of the twentieth century , led by nationalist intellectuals who are ‘ marginal ’ to their own societies . |
| 26 | Dierdriu said , ‘ You know the ancient curse laid on Tara at the beginning of her history ? ’ and looked at him and waited , and Fergus said , half to himself , ‘ If Tara should ever belong to a pure-bred Human , then it will fall into ruin , and the Bright Palace will be no more … ’ ’ ‘ ‘ … and all Ireland will seethe with evil , and the skies will darken , and the rivers will run with blood . ’ |
| 27 | He flew to Hamburg at the beginning of May in order to attend the postponed ceremony for the Hanseatic-Goethe prize and to give an address on " Goethe the Sage " . |
| 28 | Numerous labels have been attached to the political system which Ivan the Great bequeathed to Muscovy at the beginning of the sixteenth century — oriental despotism ( Plekhanov , Szamuely ) , patrimonial monarchy ( Pipes ) , estate-representative monarchy ( Cherepnin ) . |
| 29 | The party would leave for France at the beginning of July and Ferdinando would not be of it . |
| 30 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |