Example sentences of "begin at a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line .
2 This can be avoided in the second model : Here pupils would begin at an agreed level and be guided through tasks with demands at each step increasing so that every child can positively achieve , i.e. reach their place on the ladder while the most able can continue to show their abilities beyond a fixed range .
3 My own recollections begin at a public function just over 20 years ago .
4 With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes .
5 The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes .
6 The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace .
7 Our afternoon lessons began at a quarter-to-two , and if the express did not run on time , I ran the risk of being late for roll call .
8 Occupation outside the main fort at Ilchester clearly began at an early date and probably included native elements .
9 MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club .
10 The plan for Shotover was simple ; stretching along an axis from west to east , it began at an octagonal pond , leading to an obelisk , then the house itself .
11 In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 .
12 By contrast the key feature of a fully developed nervous system is its specificity , the precise set of connections by which a signal beginning at a particular sensory cell runs in a defined route , ending in some effector cell , a private line , essentially insulated from the multitude of other neurons within the system .
13 The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage .
14 Because when I read the leaflet on that crucial afternoon , it turned out that I could n't start swallowing the pills on any old day : the course had to begin at a particular point in my menstrual cycle .
15 As a result of that meeting , the leaders agreed to meet together to discuss the obstacles in the way of further political dialogue in the hope that new talks might be able to begin at an early date .
16 The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year .
17 Instead of beginning a search at the start of the structure ( i.e. first element of the array ) , the binary search technique begins at a mid point .
18 The problem begins at a conceptual level with the initial division between master and slave as such , as if relations of power work according to the binary opposition of Hegel 's fight to the death between two individuals .
19 The chances of achieving great things with your puppy increases if training begins at an early age .
20 Finally , sexual experimentation , which begins at an early age , is entirely free from adult concern or interference .
21 So whether married or not , child-bearing begins at an early age .
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