Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the beginning [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | And , as the Chancellor patiently explained at the beginning of his speech , the Budget deals with income , not expenditure , which is precisely why he wants to change it . |
2 | But then I had one of my rare good ideas : why not try ringing up those breeders who had only advertised at the beginning of the breeding season , about six months before ? |
3 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
4 | The paragraph idea(s) : Most historians put just one main idea in each paragraph , often expressed in one sentence and usually placed at the beginning of the paragraph . |
5 | It 's thought Sun Microsystems Inc 's long-awaited Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) wholly-owned subsidiary based in Moscow will be formally announced at the beginning of the company 's financial year in August ( UX No 424 ) : headed by Robert Hall , the four-strong team is awaiting phone lines and the refurbishment of offices it has leased in the Russin capital — they 're working out of their own apartments at the moment . |
6 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
7 | Alternatively a floor can be chemically treated at the beginning of a cleaning session and not cleaned until the end , provided cleaners are suitably equipped with Wellingtons and are aware of the increased slip hazard . |
8 | The block of flats was a new one and had not been fully occupied at the beginning of the war owing to the absence of people from London . |
9 | These included the return to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah of the islands Abu Musa and the two Tunbs , occupied by Iran in 1971 ; a modification of the 1975 Algiers agreement which Iraq had unilaterally abrogated at the beginning of the war ; autonomy for the Arab , Kurdish and Baluchi minorities in Iran ; and the ‘ acceptance of certain conditions ’ ( no doubt concerning non-interference in Iraq 's domestic affairs ) for the improvement of relations between the two countries . |
10 | It is important to the final effect that , whatever the mixture , a curry powder is lightly fried at the beginning of the cooking to release its full flavour , and not merely stirred into a liquid . |