Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been clear from the beginning that there are problems here for teachers having to assess a whole range of attainment targets across the curriculum . |
| 2 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |
| 3 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 4 | Kevin Butler , director of the association , said : ‘ We have been confident from the beginning that the Brand New Start Scheme would be successful . ’ |
| 5 | It has been present from the beginning as a primitive rhythm , that element associated with the ‘ auditory imagination ’ of poetry , and so with the savage in the jungle and his gods , ‘ His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom … |
| 6 | ‘ We are talking of potentially titanic forces which are present at the beginning of the Cosmos . ’ |
| 7 | There is ample evidence , however , that the anatomical and neurochemical requirements for pain perception are present from the beginning of the second trimester of pregnancy and are reasonably well-developed by 30 weeks gestation . |
| 8 | A thousand strange phantoms arise , which come and go without his will : these , which are transient in the beginning , at last take firm possession of the mind , which yields to their dominion , and , after a long struggle , runs into continued madness . |
| 9 | The last instant of the flattening of the cushion , we are inclined to think , will be simultaneous with the beginning of a causal circumstance for the cushion 's being other than flattened . |
| 10 | £2,300 shall be payable at the beginning of the shoot period or on 27 November 1989 , whichever is the earlier |
| 11 | From the analogy with the surface of the earth , one might expect that the end of the universe would be similar to the beginning , just as the North Pole is much like the South Pole . |
| 12 | If one took the beginning of the universe to correspond to the North Pole , then the end of the universe should be similar to the beginning , just as the South Pole is similar to the North . |
| 13 | Assuming the reservoirs to be full at the beginning of June , the absolute minimum capacity required would be the deficiency of 55,937,000 cu. ft . |
| 14 | If the emphasis is on people whose holiday activities are more or less self-explanatory , a main title ( which can be pre-recorded onto the beginning of the tape or superimposed live over the opening shot by your camcorder 's titling facility ) may be all that is required to set the scene . |
| 15 | Detailed Festival brochures will be available at the beginning of March , from The Festival Office |
| 16 | Bedford , Massachusetts-based Progress Software Corp says the first products from its collaboration with Object Design Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts , will be available at the beginning of 1993 . |
| 17 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 18 | As to apparatus , saws were evidently effective enough to cut nephrite into the relatively thin sheets from which many archaic jades were made , and bow-drills must have been available from the beginning . |
| 19 | The church of Christ the Cornerstone has been open since the beginning of the year , but tomorrow will see the start of a new era . |
| 20 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 21 | Moreover , the high estimates of press influence on international relations which were widespread by the beginning of the twentieth century , and which have been repeated by some historians , were much exaggerated . |
| 22 | Opportunities for the integration of students were present from the beginning . |
| 23 | She wanted to say that he 'd feel all right when a little time had passed , just like you did at school when you were homesick at the beginning of term . |
| 24 | These unfavourable contrasts were commonplace at the beginning of the decade and were at the heart of the centrist critique of two-party politics as then played . |
| 25 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 26 | The CNAA 's developmental policies focussed , as intended , on the range of subjects which colleges proposed to offer , and on the questions of quality with which the Council and its committees were concerned from the beginning . |
| 27 | We were adamant from the beginning that we could n't retain the breadth of the remit if we did n't have some security of income.1 That we would enable us to resist the temptation , either from shareholders or advertisers , to turn the channel into a sort of a yuppie channel . |
| 28 | In 27 countries studied in the World Fertility Survey , the proportions of married women still childless by age 40–9 varied from 1.3 to 6.7 per cent , and historical data suggest that 3 per cent of couples are sterile from the beginning of reproductive life ( Population Reports 1983 , Bongaarts and Potter 1983 ) . |
| 29 | Project duration is 16 months and completion is due at the beginning of August 1994 . |
| 30 | In the first one , he is content at the beginning , but then we begin to see , at the end of this part , that he is dissatisfied with his status , his loneliness and is cared by the criminal ‘ underworld ’ . |