Example sentences of "begin [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having began as a wild idea with a group of mates in a St Agnes pub , provoked by anger , frustration and too many evenings of getting home ill from the beach ; the SAS ' influence is now spreading well beyond Cornwall and the surfing community . |
| 2 | Furthermore , when we do not notice an example , we often begin with a vague feeling that the text is poorly written and have to work quite hard to say just what is wrong with it . |
| 3 | ( a ) Begin with a reverse punch to mid-section ; use this to disguise the pullback of your non-punching arm |
| 4 | Early March : ( or when water temperature stays consistently around 44–45°s ; F ) : Begin with a small feed of sinking wheatgerm pellets . |
| 5 | You may omit from this count words that begin with a capital letter , words that are long because they are hyphenated and verbs whose third syllable is " -ed " or " -es . " |
| 6 | Begin with a light regime and then gradually increase the work-load as the acute phase ( the period when the injury is most painful but the effects have not yet manifested themselves ) comes to an end . |
| 7 | However , in the absence of clear evidence and when the fiscal debate is difficult to resolve , it is possible that those who begin with a public choice framework may be led to quite different reform proposals from those who approach the issue from a more traditional framework . |
| 8 | All these schemes begin with a public meeting which local chiefs and members of parliament attend . |
| 9 | ( a ) Begin with a clean board . |
| 10 | Begin with a 25 watt bulb placed about 5 cm above the soil . |
| 11 | They begin with a lukewarm rendition of their second single ‘ Suzanne ’ and exude a self-conscious hesitancy , although I 'm told they 're a roaring juggernaut of assurance compared to their earlier live self . |
| 12 | A new programme , ‘ East of Edam ’ is also now broadcast on Sundays to countries outside Europe , and all Sunday transmissions now begin with a five-minute news bulletin . |
| 13 | Some affairs actually now begin with a medical procedure . |
| 14 | Or you can ask them to find how many words begin with a particular group of letters : chro- ; mini ; gn- . |
| 15 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 16 | It is not difficult to think of female names which begin with an unstressed syllable ( Patricia , Elizabeth , Rebecca ) , but male names are very rare ( Jerome , Demetrius ) . |
| 17 | We begin with an exploded concept , for ‘ mind ’ no longer signifies the entity it once did . |
| 18 | Suppose we begin with an existential hypothesis , without being able to point to any confirming evidence . |
| 19 | The changes a and a′ correspond to the elastic response of the polymer and so we can begin with a Hookean spring . |
| 20 | Local authorities should begin with a general review of the area concerned before work on the scheme proceeded , when the essential elements would be established : use zoning , roads , reservations and preservation of trees and protection of woodlands . |
| 21 | A new programme of preparation for the new nurse will normally be completed within three years , and will begin with a Common Foundation Programme ( CFP ) of at least 18 months in length , followed by a branch programme in mental health ; or nursing of persons with mental handicap ; or nursing of the adult ; or nursing of the child . |
| 22 | We can begin with a preliminary distinction of types of such practice , as follows : |
| 23 | The remedy for this doubt must begin with a careful discernment of which stage the doubt is in and what the root of the lack of conviction is . |
| 24 | Not only does each generation begin with a single-celled bottleneck . |
| 25 | This type must begin with a continental-margin orogen on the overriding plate and be transformed into an intercontinental collision orogen when continental crust on the underthrusting plate reaches the subduction zone . |
| 26 | Let me begin with a semantic query . |
| 27 | The Universe actually did begin with a Big Bang . |
| 28 | This chapter will begin with a brief survey of " hearing children read " as it has been popularly practised . |
| 29 | It will begin with a brief survey of the corporate economy . |
| 30 | One could begin with a base-form pronunciation of each word in the dictionary , and then apply phonological rules to generate valid variations in pronunciation . |