Example sentences of "[be] [adj] at the beginning of " in BNC.

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1 The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt .
2 ‘ We are talking of potentially titanic forces which are present at the beginning of the Cosmos . ’
3 £2,300 shall be payable at the beginning of the shoot period or on 27 November 1989 , whichever is the earlier
4 Assuming the reservoirs to be full at the beginning of June , the absolute minimum capacity required would be the deficiency of 55,937,000 cu. ft .
5 Detailed Festival brochures will be available at the beginning of March , from The Festival Office
6 Bedford , Massachusetts-based Progress Software Corp says the first products from its collaboration with Object Design Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts , will be available at the beginning of 1993 .
7 She wanted to say that he 'd feel all right when a little time had passed , just like you did at school when you were homesick at the beginning of term .
8 These unfavourable contrasts were commonplace at the beginning of the decade and were at the heart of the centrist critique of two-party politics as then played .
9 Project duration is 16 months and completion is due at the beginning of August 1994 .
10 In Sinhalese imagery the two ends of a coconut represent respectively the penis of a man and the breasts of a woman and the preliminary separation of the two ends is appropriate at the beginning of a wedding which is to unite male and female .
11 The assessment phase is critical at the beginning of contact with a new family but will also continue throughout contact with them .
12 This is common at the beginning of a behaviour change programme to enhance the process and speed up the initial rate of change .
13 If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem .
14 When the house was empty at the beginning of the century following the owner 's death , some village children crept into the orchard and began to collect apples .
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