Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] the beginning " in BNC.
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1 | that I believe the beginning , I was reading a letter in the paper and this person had been to see it |
2 | According to Visser ( 1966 : 669 ) , it is around the time of the passage from Old to Middle English that one witnesses the beginning of this " shrinkage " of the non-past , which loses more and more ground to the constructions with will and shall . |
3 | When the first parental rumblings voicing criticism of a hitherto unknown junior school in Islington , North London , became public , few watchers of the educational scene imagined that they marked the beginning of a long-running drama which would fill many column inches in the daily press as well as provide material for a TV documentary . |
4 | Indeed the real significance of the Welfare State report was that it marked the beginning of the end not for the health service but for the CPRS . |
5 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
6 | After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems . |