Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the beginning " in BNC.

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1 As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century .
2 Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion .
3 If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem .
4 The changes in legislation have been dramatic since the mid-eighties the majority of changes coming in at the beginning of nineteen ninety three with the E C directives .
5 They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising .
6 Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May .
7 An employee of the Ministry of Finances pointed out at the beginning of 1856 that Russia 's lowest social groups were far more heavily taxed than their counterparts in other countries .
8 It is possible to study for an honours degree in Italian , or for the variety of joint honours degrees set out at the beginning of the Arts section ( with another modern European language , for example , or with a number of other Arts subjects , or with Business Studies ) , and Italian may also be taken as a major or minor part of the MA(General) and the MA ( General Honours ) .
9 This is the process that programmers go through at the beginning of a job to understand existing code .
10 The cuttings date back to the beginning of the 1980s : ‘ If you read these stories day by day , you simply do n't realise how many there are .
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