Example sentences of "be [adj] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We are talking of potentially titanic forces which are present at the beginning of the Cosmos . ’ |
| 3 | £2,300 shall be payable at the beginning of the shoot period or on 27 November 1989 , whichever is the earlier |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Detailed Festival brochures will be available at the beginning of March , from The Festival Office |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Project duration is 16 months and completion is due at the beginning of August 1994 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | In Sinhalese imagery the two ends of a coconut represent respectively the penis of a man and the breasts of a woman and the preliminary separation of the two ends is appropriate at the beginning of a wedding which is to unite male and female . |
| 13 | The assessment phase is critical at the beginning of contact with a new family but will also continue throughout contact with them . |
| 14 | The same stack is excited at the beginning and end of the sequence and if the stator and rotor teeth are aligned in this stack the rotor must have moved one tooth pitch . |
| 15 | This is common at the beginning of a behaviour change programme to enhance the process and speed up the initial rate of change . |
| 16 | If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem . |
| 17 | By placing experimental cuckoo eggs in the nests of warblers throughout the summer breeding season , the biologists established that egg rejection rates changed during the breeding season : the rejection of the cuckoo eggs was high at the beginning and end of the season , and low in the middle . |
| 18 | When the house was empty at the beginning of the century following the owner 's death , some village children crept into the orchard and began to collect apples . |
| 19 | It was in this context that Lord Denning in Dunford and Elliott v Firth Brown [ 1978 ] FSR 143 added a gloss to the analysis of Megarry V-C in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd when he said that if the stipulation of confidence was unreasonable at the time of making it ; or if it was reasonable at the beginning , but afterwards , in the course of subsequent happenings , it becomes unreasonable that it should be enforced : then the courts will decline to enforce it . |
| 20 | Although I was brisk at the beginning about the philosophical attitudes of AI workers , I owe the reader some small sample of them , that I can refer back to later . |
| 21 | Thus , in 1973 , we are no wiser than we were in 1948 : the experience of twenty-five years has shed no more light upon the question , does the death penalty deter ? than was available at the beginning — except perhaps that the neutrality of the evidence , which I have explained I find so logically impressive , has been reinforced . |
| 22 | Er , my friend got a house at Westerhailes Park eleven months ago and er it was alright at the beginning , then she started getting hassle , from the kids coming to her door asking for cigarettes and she did n't give them them , and they were banging on her door , tapping on her windows and everything . |
| 23 | And a lovely picture , well , it was alright at the beginning . |