Example sentences of "[adj] at the beginning [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | £2,300 shall be payable at the beginning of the shoot period or on 27 November 1989 , whichever is the earlier |
| 3 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was equally hostile at the beginning of the 1977 one , but when no dramatic evidence of success materialised , such as the lights going out across Belfast , it continued hostile . |
| 6 | Almost non-existent at the beginning of the 1980s , rail carryings of this commodity had assumed significant proportions by the end of the decade , showing Railfreight both eager and able to adapt to new opportunities . |
| 7 | ‘ We are talking of potentially titanic forces which are present at the beginning of the Cosmos . ’ |
| 8 | The development of clones from the rosettes present at the beginning of the study was also recorded in detail so that the clonal parent was known for almost every rosette present in the quadrats at the end of the study . |
| 9 | Put this as a percentage of the number of aphids present at the beginning of the week : |
| 10 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | wore off a bit , I mean there was erm , everybody was feeling very patriotic at the beginning of the war but after four or five years the erm novelty wore off |
| 13 | Although I was brisk at the beginning about the philosophical attitudes of AI workers , I owe the reader some small sample of them , that I can refer back to later . |
| 14 | However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war . |
| 15 | The annual cash flow of 200 million yen is then split into an imputed return of interest on the investment outstanding at the beginning of the period and a recovery of the initial investment . |
| 16 | A curious but important feature of the PESC system was to define ‘ constant prices ’ as being those prevailing at the beginning of the exercise : they were not updated in the light of subsequent price changes . |
| 17 | This trend has a maximum deviation from true age of about nine hundred years too recent at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC . |