Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By placing experimental cuckoo eggs in the nests of warblers throughout the summer breeding season , the biologists established that egg rejection rates changed during the breeding season : the rejection of the cuckoo eggs was high at the beginning and end of the season , and low in the middle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was in this context that Lord Denning in Dunford and Elliott v Firth Brown [ 1978 ] FSR 143 added a gloss to the analysis of Megarry V-C in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd when he said that if the stipulation of confidence was unreasonable at the time of making it ; or if it was reasonable at the beginning , but afterwards , in the course of subsequent happenings , it becomes unreasonable that it should be enforced : then the courts will decline to enforce it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus , in 1973 , we are no wiser than we were in 1948 : the experience of twenty-five years has shed no more light upon the question , does the death penalty deter ? than was available at the beginning — except perhaps that the neutrality of the evidence , which I have explained I find so logically impressive , has been reinforced . |
| 9 | Er , my friend got a house at Westerhailes Park eleven months ago and er it was alright at the beginning , then she started getting hassle , from the kids coming to her door asking for cigarettes and she did n't give them them , and they were banging on her door , tapping on her windows and everything . |
| 10 | And a lovely picture , well , it was alright at the beginning . |