Example sentences of "[noun pl] and at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , Muslims are classed as Arabs , while at the end of the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern period , they were classed as Turks . |
| 2 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 3 | The house was built by T.H. March ( the then American Consul ) who was an avid collector of plants and at the beginning of this century it was the home of Dr Herbert Watney , a great horticulturist . |
| 4 | He was quite insecure about being away from adults and at the beginning of the book he repeatedly asked Ralph if there were any adults on the island even though Ralph did not know . |
| 5 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |