Example sentences of "begin at [art] [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 Does the spider begin in the centre and move outwards down the spiral , or does it begin at the outside and work inwards ?
3 Analysis of the contractor 's programmes should begin at the tender stage so that from the onset of a contract the attainability of the programme ( and thus the completion date ) have been assessed .
4 In particular , general relativity can not predict how the universe should begin at the big bang .
5 The international mediator Lord Owen said yesterday that talks between the Croatian government and Serbs would begin at the United Nations next week in an effort to renew a peace agreement blown apart in recent fighting .
6 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 .
7 My own recollections begin at a public function just over 20 years ago .
8 Begin at the logical beginning .
9 Using a tapestry needle threaded with the embroidery colour , begin at the top right of the motif .
10 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 .
11 The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes .
12 The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace .
13 Occupation outside the main fort at Ilchester clearly began at an early date and probably included native elements .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Einstein 's general theory of relativity , on its own , predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity ( if the whole universe recollapsed ) , or at a singularity inside a black hole ( if a local region , such as a star , were to collapse ) .
17 Diana passed her interview and , in the spring term , began at the Vacani dance studio on the Brompton Road .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Benchmarking represented a period of enforced introspection beginning at the strategic level and percolating through the organization as the change process progressed .
21 Along the north side wall , beginning at the eastern end and for some 250ft was the machine row , which consisted of cross-cut and band-saws , mortising machines , planers , two spoke machines , wheel lathe , trimming machine , boring machines etc .
22 Downwardly sticky wages gives a J shape to the curve , labelled , with the curve beginning at the existing price level .
23 ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’
24 It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception .
25 With the dBase world now concentrated in the powerful hands of Borland International ( since its Ashton-Tate acquisition ) , Microsoft Corp ( with its pending Fox Software Inc acquisition ) and Computer Associates International ( which made a move on Clipper developer Nantucket Corp at the beginning of May ) , efforts to develop the various languages into an ANSI standard under the Xbase tag have now begun at the American National Standards Institution in Scottsdale , Arizona .
26 But first this lunchtime , the trial has begun at the High court in Glasgow of two youths accused of murdering the Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon .
27 Summing up has begun at the High Court in the case of a woman who claims that a routine jaw operation left her paralysed for life .
28 The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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