Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at the beginning " in BNC.

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1 The former are due to be heard together at the beginning of December , a hearing at which the Bar Council will again be represented , and it is clearly too early to predict a result or to consider the implications in detail .
2 This ladder may be either caught in at the beginning by transferring the ladder stitch to the adjacent needle OR the stitch can be run down as you work and picked up and reversed after the cable is finished to form a purl stitch on the right side .
3 There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's .
4 A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis .
5 This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations .
6 Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 .
7 In an extended piece of discourse , a common procedure , known as anaphora , is for the identity of someone or something to be given once at the beginning , and thereafter referred to as she or he or it .
8 In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century .
9 The examination schedule drawn up at the beginning of the test may need to be modified in the light of findings in the earlier stages of the test .
10 We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries .
11 The warning note that it was all going to be very different this time was sounded right at the beginning , with the efforts to establish a minority government .
12 However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise :
13 As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control .
14 As pointed out at the beginning of this section , some of the interesting responses that arise on applying somewhat larger sinusoidal e.m.f.s to nonlinear resistive circuits such that the signal behaviour is governed by the nonlinear relation have been considered in section 5.9 .
15 The hand-out can be given out at the beginning of the learning session and used as a basis for teaching .
16 It was only at this stage that the dowry of the bride , which would usually have included both jewels and the title deeds to land , was actually handed over by the bride 's parents though details of the dowry would have been settled right at the beginning at Stage 1 of the proceedings .
17 The directives were brought in at the beginning of the year in response to EC directives .
18 Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there .
19 It will be set up at the beginning of 1991 .
20 I 'd like to move with th er , I I think tha wi given wi , though we have n't got all that much time , can we move onto another area that was brought up at the beginning of the programme which was erm the use of animals in recreation and er Lisa particularly mentioned hunting , now , she thinks hunting should be banned , do you ?
21 The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears .
22 The requirement to assess these issues at an early stage and to confirm the special circumstances that exist by obtaining the approval of three partners other than the lead partner is set out at the beginning of this section .
23 In each course the method of assessment is set out at the beginning of the session .
24 His sense of the delicate interrelation between reading , meditation and prayer is set out at the beginning of the chapter on contemplation : Here meditation has a mediating function : a process in which insight is received like a gift , much as the process of analysing a poem mysteriously yields a new integrated perception of its whole meaning which transcends the conscious process of study .
25 It is at this point that we can make our first connection with the emphases we have laid out at the beginning of this book .
26 This is largely because money allocated centrally at the beginning of the financial year does not usually reach the city itself until the autumn .
27 The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established .
28 Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter .
29 The precise location of the squamous columnar mucosal junction , measured in centimetres from the incisors , was carefully defined both at the beginning and at the end of the endoscopy .
30 In any case most of the time required will be taken up at the beginning , in the planning and drawing out of the plan on paper , in choosing the plants , and in soil preparation and planting .
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