Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cliffords had forfeited their estates at the beginning of the reign for their adherence to Lancaster . |
| 2 | The Cliffords had forfeited their estates at the beginning of the reign for their adherence to Lancaster . |
| 3 | The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship . |
| 4 | Directors Tamara Chodzko and Lawren Maben have taken a lease at 100 Great Russell Street where they launched their programme at the beginning of last month with ‘ A Modest Proposal ’ ( to 16 May ) . |
| 5 | Racing cyclists generally like to meet their fans at the beginning of a stage , but do n't ask for autographs today . |
| 6 | The Government must try to arrange its business to ensure that the Commons does not have all its work at the beginning of the session and the House of Lords has all its work at the end . |
| 7 | It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society . |
| 8 | Hygiene took a new acquisition under its wing at the beginning of August . |
| 9 | ) And , having digested that , any Masons would have shot out of their seats at the beginning of the overture — threefold chords in a knocking rhythm . |
| 10 | The NGC would present the whole of its evidence at the beginning of the inquiry , held mainly in Northallerton and expected to last more than two months . |
| 11 | Licensed semiconductor partners will be able to involve their customers at the beginning of the design process and Sun says its current intention is to facilitate early design adoption and volume sales as soon as silicon is production ready , independent of its own system products becoming available . |
| 12 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 13 | As the Cloud-author might say , contemplative understanding comes from nowhere and is experienced as a gift : We must not be surprised if a man does not attain the heights of contemplation or experience its sweetness at the beginning of his Christian life . |
| 14 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 15 | Crossing the road to water the bed of dahlias and moon daisies and nasturtiums she kept on the grass margin across the road from her door at the beginning of the village , Mrs Reynolds paused to watch Rose make her way round by the bridge to the post office and muttered venomously , ‘ There 's no fool like an old fool' , as if confronting the worst part of her own nature . |
| 16 | And if it 's coming from the farthest reaches of space — where the tide of expansion flows really fast-it will still not have reached us — even though it started out on its journey at the beginning of the Universe , thousands of millions of years ago . ’ |
| 17 | As a result of this warning Will Lawther of the Miners Federation , and C. Poole , Member for Lichfield , withdrew their backing at the beginning of March . |
| 18 | If she could have admitted her folly at the beginning it would have been all right , but the longer it went on the harder it became . |
| 19 | Kuwaitis left stranded in Britain following the invasion of their country at the beginning of August are helping to form a national resistance movement ; in some cases , small groups of men have gained access to Kuwait to fight the occupying Iraqi forces . |
| 20 | At present there are just informal guidelines ( found at the back of your telephone directory ) which say , among other things , that sales people should state their names and their company at the beginning of the call . |
| 21 | However , if the company elects to exercise its option at the beginning of a contract year , it must pay the artist a previously agreed sum of money as an advance against future royalties . |
| 22 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 23 | True , the first and perhaps the second blackmail payments had come in before he was obliged to pay for his teeth at the beginning of June , but he had blithely paid two hundred and fifty for them in cash when the demand came . |
| 24 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |
| 25 | He was a bit sort of wobbly on his legs at the beginning of the day but he 's been |
| 26 | On his return at the beginning of July , he will be able to get in touch with you regarding the final video edit . |
| 27 | Take part of Lyly 's description of his hero at the beginning of Euphues , which deserves our attention as " the first novel in English " : The elaborate parallelistic structure of these two sentences has been displayed above by placing the parallelisms or structural equivalences , in brackets . |
| 28 | Bob will take up his post at the beginning of January 1992 and will be based at Canada 's head office in Toronto . |
| 29 | Pip changes from being content with his life at the beginning and not expecting much out of life until he goes to Miss Havisham 's and meets and falls in love with Estella . |
| 30 | He had an outlet for his temper at the beginning of a new day . |