Example sentences of "begin at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | In particular , general relativity can not predict how the universe should begin at the big bang . |
3 | Action : All initial keywords must begin at the same position on the line as HEADER-FORMAT-IS |
4 | Begin at the logical beginning . |
5 | Begin at the first chapel on the right dedicated to St Ludmila ( 1 ) . |
6 | Using a tapestry needle threaded with the embroidery colour , begin at the top right of the motif . |
7 | He began at the first line . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 ) . |
10 | Diana passed her interview and , in the spring term , began at the Vacani dance studio on the Brompton Road . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It began at the same time for both of us , did n't it ? |
14 | Benchmarking represented a period of enforced introspection beginning at the strategic level and percolating through the organization as the change process progressed . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Downwardly sticky wages gives a J shape to the curve , labelled , with the curve beginning at the existing price level . |
18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
19 | We are shown certain words in the opening one and told that we " have begun at the highest level " ( p. 197 ) . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | But first this lunchtime , the trial has begun at the High court in Glasgow of two youths accused of murdering the Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon . |
23 | Summing up has begun at the High Court in the case of a woman who claims that a routine jaw operation left her paralysed for life . |
24 | Whitechurch was shown the works by Mr G. Coker , chief draughtsman : ‘ There are two chief ways of seeing the works , either to begin at the finished coach and work backwards to the details , or to go to the beginning first and work upwards , but , at all events , you shall see as much as we can show you in a day ’ . |
25 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
26 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |
27 | To begin at the right time , he wrote , means to be done with excuses once and for all . |
28 | But now you have to begin at the other end and tell the story in a straight run through the eyes , or over the shoulder , of the " detective " figure . |
29 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
30 | This work went ahead , although rather slowly , and allowed the tunnelling to begin at the same time . |