Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] at [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directives were brought in at the beginning of the year in response to EC directives . |
| 2 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 3 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 4 | When the men were starved out at the beginning of April 1890 and the union had capitulated , the organisation celebrated its triumph by refusing to take back men who wore the union " button " and required those who were re-employed to sign " The Document " , undertaking to work harmoniously with non-unionists and imported labour . |
| 5 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 6 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 7 | I 'd like to move with th er , I I think tha wi given wi , though we have n't got all that much time , can we move onto another area that was brought up at the beginning of the programme which was erm the use of animals in recreation and er Lisa particularly mentioned hunting , now , she thinks hunting should be banned , do you ? |
| 8 | World Junior steeplechase champion Jimmy Muindi was snapped up at the beginning of the week and he will be joined in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines 10K road race by Josphat Ndeti and Zablon Miano . |