Example sentences of "[vb past] at the beginning [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 2 | Prices of electricity and gas rose at the beginning of 1991 , increasing retail prices by 12.7 per cent overall . |
| 3 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 4 | Another common error involving the match between subject and verb involves unrelated ( or so-called " dangling " ) participles , which occur when a participle used at the beginning of a sentence does not match with the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 5 | AS WE reported at the beginning of September , an increase in the fixed price agreed each year between Champagne 's growers and merchants seemed inevitable , putting further pressure on prices that are already affected by rising demand . |
| 6 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 7 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 8 | As we mentioned at the beginning of this chapter , aggregate demand is the total demand for all final goods and services in an economy over a period of time and consists of the sum of the demands of consumers , firms , the government and foreigners . |
| 9 | You mentioned at the beginning about |
| 10 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 11 | Reservoirs like Talla created at the beginning of the century and , more recently , Meggett in the 1980s guarantee supplies well into the next century . |
| 12 | This change occurred at the beginning of the Paleozoic era starting with the Cambrian period , about 570 to 700 million years ago . |
| 13 | Reaction time was faster when the target word occurred at the beginning of a clause , than when it was at the end of a clause . |
| 14 | For , as we shall see , it is a remarkable and essential transformation , one which occurred at the beginning of human culture but which , in some subsequent cultures — possibly even in the modern world — could undergo retransformation back again into what it originally had been — an external tyranny . |
| 15 | This case is the first of the modern Court of Appeal authorities to which I referred at the beginning of this judgment . |
| 16 | In nineteen ninety S C F began its work providing facilities for prisoner 's families in Crumlin road in Belfast , Norwich prison , Strangeways and here in London 's Holloway prison for women which I visited at the beginning of June . |
| 17 | As we noted at the beginning of the chapter , white , middle-class churches in Britain have a poor ‘ track record ’ on relating to artisan , West Indian and Asian cultures . |
| 18 | As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible . |
| 19 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 20 | The first exchange came at the beginning of November 1929 . |
| 21 | The summer came at the beginning of August . |
| 22 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 23 | Table 10.4 examines each of the sectors we identified at the beginning of the appendix . |
| 24 | By continuing to ask ‘ is it true ? ’ instead of analysing ‘ which truth ? ’ and ‘ whose truth ? ’ , antiracists often remain trapped within the paradox we identified at the beginning of this Introduction . |
| 25 | Normally this duty was spelt out explicitly in the instructions he received at the beginning of his embassy . |
| 26 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 27 | Evidence of fraud within the bank uncovered at the beginning of 1991 prompted the Bank of England to commission a report from BCCI 's auditor , Price Waterhouse . |
| 28 | To most serious naturalists ( and the term ‘ biologist ’ , coined at the beginning of the century by Lamarck and Trew , took long to come into use ) , relationships which were not affinities were not really of much interest . |
| 29 | The proclamation followed approval on Oct. 17-20 by the highest state body , the unicameral National Assembly ( Országgyülés ) , elected for a five-year term , of a new transitional constitution and electoral law which introduced a multiparty democratic system ( hitherto the sole legal party had been the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , reorganized at the beginning of October as the Hungarian Socialist Party ) . |
| 30 | As I stated at the beginning of this book , the common thread that runs through the different chapters is the problem of continuity/discontinuity . |