Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as the Chancellor patiently explained at the beginning of his speech , the Budget deals with income , not expenditure , which is precisely why he wants to change it . |
| 2 | Suffice it to say that some people are better built at the beginning . |
| 3 | But then I had one of my rare good ideas : why not try ringing up those breeders who had only advertised at the beginning of the breeding season , about six months before ? |
| 4 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 5 | As the stories are presented , the timeless Paradise is always placed at the beginning and the time-bound here-and-now at the end , though in some versions , as in Christianity , there is also a vision of an eschatological future when mankind , redeemed , will once again get back to the Paradisal beginning . |
| 6 | The paragraph idea(s) : Most historians put just one main idea in each paragraph , often expressed in one sentence and usually placed at the beginning of the paragraph . |
| 7 | It 's thought Sun Microsystems Inc 's long-awaited Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) wholly-owned subsidiary based in Moscow will be formally announced at the beginning of the company 's financial year in August ( UX No 424 ) : headed by Robert Hall , the four-strong team is awaiting phone lines and the refurbishment of offices it has leased in the Russin capital — they 're working out of their own apartments at the moment . |
| 8 | ( i ) Title music Combined with a title design , this is usually repeated at the beginning and the end of each programme and helps give it an identity . |
| 9 | Throughout the Student 's Book , the key language of each unit is clearly stated at the beginning . |
| 10 | Viewers should be clearly warned at the beginning and end of all advertising breaks . |
| 11 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
| 12 | Alternatively a floor can be chemically treated at the beginning of a cleaning session and not cleaned until the end , provided cleaners are suitably equipped with Wellingtons and are aware of the increased slip hazard . |
| 13 | Indeed , Mike Scott at Granada refused to meet us , simply refused at the beginning to meet us , and would agree only to talk to Jeremy Isaacs . |
| 14 | Summary : sometimes placed at the beginning — often the only part read . |
| 15 | The block of flats was a new one and had not been fully occupied at the beginning of the war owing to the absence of people from London . |
| 16 | These included the return to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah of the islands Abu Musa and the two Tunbs , occupied by Iran in 1971 ; a modification of the 1975 Algiers agreement which Iraq had unilaterally abrogated at the beginning of the war ; autonomy for the Arab , Kurdish and Baluchi minorities in Iran ; and the ‘ acceptance of certain conditions ’ ( no doubt concerning non-interference in Iraq 's domestic affairs ) for the improvement of relations between the two countries . |
| 17 | Devlin completes his lecture by returning to a question he had briefly considered at the beginning , and one which is central here ; that of the relationship between the Church and the moral order . |
| 18 | It is important to the final effect that , whatever the mixture , a curry powder is lightly fried at the beginning of the cooking to release its full flavour , and not merely stirred into a liquid . |