Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] at the outset " in BNC.
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| 1 | At face value this passage asserts that in such a case the appellant/respondent is entitled to raise before the House of Lords any issue on which leave had been granted at the outset of the appeal and which was raised before but left unresolved by the Court of Appeal . |
| 2 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 3 | It had been forged at the outset in a very cordial meeting that the two men had at Colombey in September 1958 . |
| 4 | Officials of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) observed that central government had contributed just over 50 per cent to the cost of the Games , while the flying of the Catalan flag and the use of Catalan as one of the four official languages of the Games had been agreed at the outset . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that the explanation or defence could , if true , have been disclosed at the outset and despite the advantage which the defendant has gained by these tactics , no comment may be made to the jury to that effect . |