Example sentences of "begin at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line .
2 Analysis of the contractor 's programmes should begin at the tender stage so that from the onset of a contract the attainability of the programme ( and thus the completion date ) have been assessed .
3 In particular , general relativity can not predict how the universe should begin at the big bang .
4 Action : All initial keywords must begin at the same position on the line as HEADER-FORMAT-IS
5 This can be avoided in the second model : Here pupils would begin at an agreed level and be guided through tasks with demands at each step increasing so that every child can positively achieve , i.e. reach their place on the ladder while the most able can continue to show their abilities beyond a fixed range .
6 My own recollections begin at a public function just over 20 years ago .
7 Begin at the logical beginning .
8 Begin at the first chapel on the right dedicated to St Ludmila ( 1 ) .
9 Using a tapestry needle threaded with the embroidery colour , begin at the top right of the motif .
10 With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes .
11 The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes .
12 The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace .
13 Occupation outside the main fort at Ilchester clearly began at an early date and probably included native elements .
14 MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club .
15 The plan for Shotover was simple ; stretching along an axis from west to east , it began at an octagonal pond , leading to an obelisk , then the house itself .
16 He began at the first line .
17 They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state .
18 Einstein 's general theory of relativity , on its own , predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity ( if the whole universe recollapsed ) , or at a singularity inside a black hole ( if a local region , such as a star , were to collapse ) .
19 Diana passed her interview and , in the spring term , began at the Vacani dance studio on the Brompton Road .
20 Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems Inc started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor by the fourth quarter of 1996 .
21 Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor part by the fourth quarter of 1996 .
22 It began at the same time for both of us , did n't it ?
23 Benchmarking represented a period of enforced introspection beginning at the strategic level and percolating through the organization as the change process progressed .
24 Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term .
25 Along the north side wall , beginning at the eastern end and for some 250ft was the machine row , which consisted of cross-cut and band-saws , mortising machines , planers , two spoke machines , wheel lathe , trimming machine , boring machines etc .
26 Downwardly sticky wages gives a J shape to the curve , labelled , with the curve beginning at the existing price level .
27 ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’
28 We are shown certain words in the opening one and told that we " have begun at the highest level " ( p. 197 ) .
29 It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception .
30 The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year .
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