Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrangham , after a short period of ecological work , remarked that ‘ herd formation clearly involves costs even at the beginning of the wet season , when a grazing animal should have the best food supply of the year ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed , animals with shells ( the first kind of skeletons ) appeared only 530 million years ago at the beginning of the period known as the Cambrian — fairly late , compared with the age of life itself . |
| 3 | Euparkeria appeared 225 million years ago at the beginning of the Triassic — a small archosaur . |
| 4 | On Monday , a meeting was demanded with Francis Pym , a newcomer who had replaced William Whitelaw as secretary of state for Northern Ireland some weeks earlier at the beginning of December . |
| 5 | These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research . |
| 6 | , yeah it 's come in handy to put those things right at the beginning , that 's the first thing you look at , you do it on purpose . |
| 7 | Under the Bush administration , State Department officials met the delegates only at the beginning and end of each round . |
| 8 | Why did n't we just check things in at the beginning and check things out at the end ? |
| 9 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 10 | Erm you did try and pick up , I think you realized that er you had n't done your ref er your referrals properly at the beginning and you actually came back to it erm at the end erm trying to pick up on where you left off and erm Martin was very non-committal at that point . |
| 11 | It is worth checking what is available on video with a view to picking short sequences which could be used as mind stretchers occasionally at the beginning of a training session . |
| 12 | Parents can have such an enormous effect on your lives together that you need to work out the boundaries right at the beginning . |
| 13 | This would explain why most people fail to develop symptoms right at the beginning of the infestation . |
| 14 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 15 | Erm , so it 's tempting to see er anorexia as part of this whole picture , because it usually happens in younger women usually at the beginning of their reproductive careers and there is usually , or so therapists report , conflict usually with parents related to things like career , er possible choice of marriage partner which erm create conflict about the young , about the young woman 's er future reproductive life . |
| 16 | Yeah but it was n't done in a , in an enthusiastic manner it was like a sort of well who do you know like friend , family that sort of thing and at the beginning I thought you was a bit more positive but I thought when you were revisiting the , the planning the future that might have been nerves right at the beginning of the session , you then relaxed and your pace all slowed down , excellent at reminding er Jim picked up referrals mentioned earlier , handled the objection okay , do n't remember you asking Jim to contact them beforehand do n't think you did , Jim did he ? |