Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the beginning [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following extensive refurbishment , which includes shop floor reorganisation , a new lighting system and distinctive new green shelving , St George 's Gallery Books reopened at the beginning of the summer . |
| 2 | At the National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) an early CAI program was designed at the beginning of the seventies in conjunction with the George Washington University Medical Centre . |
| 3 | The proclamation followed approval on Oct. 20-27 by the highest state body , the unicameral National Assembly ( Orzággyülés ) , 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 Worker 's Party , reorganised at the beginning of October as the Hungarian Socialist Party ) . |
| 4 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 5 | The first of the themes I want to mention — a resolute opposition to the psychologism of Mill and others — is stressed at the beginning of each series of lectures . |
| 6 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 10 | This effectively marked the end of William Whitelaw 's service as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and he was succeeded at the beginning of December by Francis Pym . |
| 11 | The sales boom that Modigliani had enjoyed at the beginning of the year faded . |
| 12 | As it is a completely physiologically induced , and in that sense artificial , phenomenon , some of the criteria relevant to memory summarized at the beginning of this chapter are not relevant at this stage . |
| 13 | Comparison of actual performance with performance targeted at the beginning of the year . |
| 14 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 15 | ( There were thought to be 2,600 West Africans , mostly Nigerians , in territory held by the NPFL ; attacks on Ghanaians and Nigerians were reported at the beginning of September , and Taylor , who was reported to be holding a large number of foreigners hostage , declared war on the ECOMOG force early in September . ) |
| 16 | The commission of inquiry into the political system reported at the beginning of December to a special KANU meeting , which endorsed its recommendations for a continuation of the one-party system [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 17 | It was reported at the beginning of October that the Lao government had issued a decree suspending the commercial exploitation of timber resources . |
| 18 | These can be secured at the beginning by placing the laddered stitch on its adjacent needle , with the empty needle in WP throughout OR these stitches may be allowed to ladder and then be picked up and ribbed with the latch tool to form a purl stitch on the right side of the work . |
| 19 | One of the key issues to be considered at our meeting on the 9th of June will be the drafting of a Memorandum to the President of the European Council ( in this case , the UK Government ) which is presented at the beginning of each new presidency . |
| 20 | This unifying issue can be presented at the beginning of the drama or at a later stage , after the children have taken on roles and started on small group work . |
| 21 | Detached pigment and small but generalised lowering of colours are two problems which the restoration team headed by Maria Grazia Bernardini and Sara Staccioli have identified in the ‘ Sacred and Profane Love ’ , which was probably last relined at the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | So this survey might have to be done at the beginning of April . |
| 23 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 24 | Edward Gaylord Bourne , in his masterly series Spain in America , written at the beginning of this century , offers a view with which few would take issue : |
| 25 | The effects of load torque and inertia are separated at the beginning of acceleration interval by allowing the motor to move several Steps with all phases unexcited ; a system with high load torque and low inertia decelerates but if the load torque is small and the inertia high the velocity remains substantially constant . |
| 26 | Buckfast Abbey , built at the beginning of this century , is famous for its wine and honey . |
| 27 | Specially worth noticing is the charming little house , built at the beginning of the sixteenth century , now the home of the only choir school in Scotland . |
| 28 | A written submission has to be lodged at the beginning of October with oral hearings by the Select Committee at a later date . |
| 29 | I apologize for the urgency on this , but to get it through to the Department of the Environment it has to be lodged at the beginning of February and then up to then by by March . |
| 30 | The way towards permanent absentee government was prepared at the beginning of Edward 's reign when the king was actually in Gascony . |