Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited France at the beginning of February . |
| 2 | I referred sir at the beginning to er the limited experience I 've had in Nottinghamshire where erm a criteria based policy was put into a structure plan erm for er in that case for a prestige business development I think is what they call it , prestige business park , that was a criteria based policy as a way of containing , stopping this strategic issue becoming a Trojan horse for lots of other things . |
| 3 | MORE than 3,000 people lobbied Parliament at the beginning of December in the hope that the Government would address itself to the plight of the homeless . |
| 4 | BR 's forerunner , the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) , which ran the newly nationalized road haulage industry as well as the railways , began operations at the beginning of 1948 . |
| 5 | I mean I was interested a a a another very interesting point you made Mike at the beginning , you said that is there , had there been studies that show the standards of French industrial relations did you say that , that this has kind of become a pattern for industrial relations conflict in France . |
| 6 | The broadcast took place at the beginning of September from the site of a National Beach Clean Day , sponsored by the National Trust and Radio 2 . |
| 7 | The OECD Economic Outlook of June 1990 attributed most of the favourable development in inflation at the end of 1989 to a stabilization of oil prices , the further softening of non-oil raw material prices , and the absorption of the effects of indirect tax increases which took place at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 8 | These kings chose Angkor at the beginning of the ninth century for their residence and remained there until 1431 , when they were defeated by the Thais . |
| 9 | John the Baptist when he saw Jesus at the beginning of the earthly ministry of Jesus , he says behold the lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world and on him was laid all of our sin all of our debt . |
| 10 | The French speak a language derived from that small group of speakers of Latin who conquered Gaul at the beginning of the first millennium AD , although they suppose they are descended more from the Gauls than the Romans . |
| 11 | When Charles I went north at the beginning of the rebellion that was to cost him his head , his Lord General sent to Robert Barker , the King 's Printer , to bring a press to Newcastle-upon-Tyne , from which could be disseminated royalist proclamations and pamphlets . |
| 12 | They introduced inspection at the beginning of processes , they introduced inspection , part way through processes and they introduced inspection at the end of the th the total process . |
| 13 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 50 ) mentions the theory that the temples ( though he treats them as palaces ) at Knossos and Phaistos were founded by foreign dynasts who invaded Crete at the beginning of the Middle Minoan period ; according to this view , urbanization occurred in Crete as a result of the arrival of already-urbanized conquerors . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding , Mr Quiles commissioned a report into strategies for reform and its controversial recommendations , made public at the beginning of last month , immediately drew the wrath of the unions . |
| 15 | MacDiarmid , the nom de plume of Christopher Murray Grieve ( 1892–1978 ) , the major figure in Scottish literature of this century , destroyed most of his manuscripts when he left Whalsey at the beginning of 1942 ; this collection consists of what he kept then and what he wrote subsequently . |
| 16 | Drummer Simon Smith , who replaced Charman at the beginning of 1988 , deals with much of the tedious organisation like booking hotels and ferries , sorting out transport to and from concerts , and driving . |