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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is largely because money allocated centrally at the beginning of the financial year does not usually reach the city itself until the autumn . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anne is glimpsed briefly at the beginning of the film in the role of Dega 's wife . |
| 11 | The performance criteria are written in a manner which accommodates changes in direction when key factors are identified either at the beginning or during the course of the investigation . |
| 12 | Heparin ( 2000 IU ) was given intravenously at the beginning of the procedure . |