Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the beginning [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
2 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
3 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
4 | Both Palm Springs , California , and West Palm Beach , Florida , boasted magnificent Spanish stations , built respectively at the beginning of the century and the 1920s . |
5 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
6 | Wellcome 's share price rose sharply at the beginning of the year after the announcement that a combination of two of its drugs , Retrovir ( zidovudine or AZT ) and Zovirax ( acyclovir ) , halved the number of deaths amongst Aids patients compared to zidovudine alone . |
7 | Patients were reviewed every two months and the duodenum inspected endoscopically at the beginning of the trial , at approximately 4 , 8 , and 12 months , and if the patient developed recurrent dyspepsia that persisted after three days of simple antacid treatment ( Maalox , maximum 30 tablets per month ) . |
8 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
9 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
10 | When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines . |
11 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
12 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
13 | The ante-natal clinic proper , beyond the red mouth and throat of reception , was , like the whole maternity wing , part of a military hospital added hastily at the beginning of the last war , in anticipation of hosts of wounded soldiers who had never come there . |
14 | London 's latest ‘ five star ’ property is The Regent , which opened quietly at the beginning of the year under general manager Wolfgang Nitschke . |
15 | But the fall began almost at the beginning of 1966 ! |
16 | I 've talked during my presentation about each of the paradoxes which we laid out at the beginning of the morning which talked about the diverse needs of different parts of an enterprise from their information systems if we are to deliver the adv er the advantages of enterprise-wide client server . |
17 | You started off at the beginning of your beat — set out on the north side of Lime Street — took a quarter of an hour to walk round and try all the locks . |
18 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
19 | The popular four-piece group Starz split up at the beginning of the year . |
20 | We did n't even realize that they organized their labour collectively , until Panic Buying ( a great '70s pastime , Panic Buying — of salt , sugar and so on ) set in at the beginning of November . |
21 | Laudable as these aims are however , they ignore the situation set out at the beginning of this chapter , namely that the majority of rural inhabitants are very satisfied and happy with their life style , and have consciously chosen to live in the countryside . |
22 | First is to be contrasted the mortgage and the charge and in this context charge is being used in its technical meaning and not in the broader sense set out at the beginning of this chapter . |
23 | As we pointed out at the beginning of this campaign , the Labour Party proposes nothing less than to pull up Britain by the roots . |
24 | But as we pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , the courts are only one of a series– of filters regulating access to the criminal justice and penal processes and , as such , they are also affected by decisions taken elsewhere in the system . |
25 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this judgment , the patient 's right of choice exists whether the reasons for making that choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent . |
26 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , education is on the threshold of a new era , which will have massive repercussions upon the issues of assessment and examination , with some of the proposed developments being viewed with considerably more apprehension than the GCSE was a couple of years ago . |
27 | 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 . |