Example sentences of "[adj] at the beginning [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the house was empty at the beginning of the century following the owner 's death , some village children crept into the orchard and began to collect apples . |
| 2 | The fees alone amount to between £6000 and £10,000 for the three years , payable at the beginning of each year . |
| 3 | £2,300 shall be payable at the beginning of the shoot period or on 27 November 1989 , whichever is the earlier |
| 4 | In Sinhalese imagery the two ends of a coconut represent respectively the penis of a man and the breasts of a woman and the preliminary separation of the two ends is appropriate at the beginning of a wedding which is to unite male and female . |
| 5 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 6 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |
| 7 | It was equally hostile at the beginning of the 1977 one , but when no dramatic evidence of success materialised , such as the lights going out across Belfast , it continued hostile . |
| 8 | For example , it may appear at the beginning of a statement ( You know , it 's time we talked ) , but it is distinctly unusual at the beginning of a question ( You know , is it 6 o clock ? ) or a command ( * You know , shut the door ) , or an exclamatory or minor sentence ( one does not say , after banging one 's thumb with a hammer , * You know , damn ! ) . |
| 9 | Under this system tenants paid low annual rents and a large entry fine at the beginning of their tenancy . |
| 10 | You 're at your most passionate at the beginning of July and a honeymoon at this time will be a wonderful experience . |
| 11 | Almost non-existent at the beginning of the 1980s , rail carryings of this commodity had assumed significant proportions by the end of the decade , showing Railfreight both eager and able to adapt to new opportunities . |
| 12 | According to the Prussian ambassador to St Petersburg , he was relatively confident at the beginning of February 1848 that he could prevent the dissatisfaction which was mounting elsewhere in Europe from penetrating his domains . |
| 13 | ‘ We are talking of potentially titanic forces which are present at the beginning of the Cosmos . ’ |
| 14 | The development of clones from the rosettes present at the beginning of the study was also recorded in detail so that the clonal parent was known for almost every rosette present in the quadrats at the end of the study . |
| 15 | Put this as a percentage of the number of aphids present at the beginning of the week : |
| 16 | She wanted to say that he 'd feel all right when a little time had passed , just like you did at school when you were homesick at the beginning of term . |
| 17 | Even at sixteen , Will refuses to stand still at the beginning of a season for a presentation , but clams down as the year progresses . |
| 18 | Remember , more companies go bust at the beginning of a recovery than at any other time . ’ |
| 19 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 20 | These unfavourable contrasts were commonplace at the beginning of the decade and were at the heart of the centrist critique of two-party politics as then played . |
| 21 | Concern to spread any benefits of reform more evenly across the economy was also evident at the beginning of 1990 , when the Bank of Indonesia restricted the availability of credit in an attempt to reduce inflationary pressure . |
| 22 | Assuming the reservoirs to be full at the beginning of June , the absolute minimum capacity required would be the deficiency of 55,937,000 cu. ft . |
| 23 | wore off a bit , I mean there was erm , everybody was feeling very patriotic at the beginning of the war but after four or five years the erm novelty wore off |
| 24 | Although I was brisk at the beginning about the philosophical attitudes of AI workers , I owe the reader some small sample of them , that I can refer back to later . |
| 25 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 26 | In times gone by , there were always lots of hedge trimmings available at the beginning of November , and it was easy to make a bonfire — with a big family you want a big bonfire . |
| 27 | Detailed Festival brochures will be available at the beginning of March , from The Festival Office |
| 28 | Bedford , Massachusetts-based Progress Software Corp says the first products from its collaboration with Object Design Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts , will be available at the beginning of 1993 . |
| 29 | The assessment phase is critical at the beginning of contact with a new family but will also continue throughout contact with them . |
| 30 | However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war . |