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 My own recollections begin at a public function just over 20 years ago .
3 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 .
4 The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes .
5 The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
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