Example sentences of "be at the beginning of " in BNC.

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1 Yet is this really so — could European dominion , and the subsequent dominion of America , really be at the beginning of a decline ?
2 It should be at the beginning of September .
3 ‘ & yet I would fain be at the Beginning of my Willows growing .
4 The header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file .
5 The module header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file .
6 So the first question is , where do you imagine the poet to be at the beginning of the poem .
7 DEF must be at the beginning of the line .
8 A two-thirds majority will be necessary to bring the new set-up into being at the beginning of the 1994-95 season , but last night a Premier Division chairman claimed to know of three others from the top 12 who would , along with his club , vote against the proposal .
9 Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years .
10 For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of .
11 At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits .
12 The students , among whom a significant proportion was female , were at the beginning of a two year full time course on subjects familiar to CIT students .
13 Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it .
14 No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future .
15 We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives .
16 Mr Nixon said : ‘ We are at the beginning of our investigations . ’
17 The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers .
18 From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence .
19 His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century .
20 Mr Miller started his London restaurant business Kenny 's at the beginning of the recession and says that , what with high interest rates , business rates and rents , an increase in value added tax , plus the recession , it has had many problems .
21 THE CLERGY AND CONGREGATIONS OF ST CHAD 'S AND THE CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART LEAVE ST CHAD 'S AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SADLEWORTH WHIT WALK ( Page 59 )
22 Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business .
23 — rewind to check that it 's at the beginning of the tape ;
24 Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties .
25 Because in fact , it 's in the middle of some words , erm , but as , it 's at the beginning of a word , which I now ca n't find .
26 It is at the beginning of an exercise routine , when the desire for results exceeds the ability to cope , that you will suffer from musculo-skeletal injuries .
27 But the funniest part about it was in King George 's playing fields where the cricket club is at the beginning of the war that was a A R P assembly point for the A R P wardens .
28 This is at the beginning of the Malvinas trouble .
29 Some psycholinguistic models ( e.g. Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) assume that the beginning of a word is known , either because it is at the beginning of the utterance or because the previous word has been identified .
30 This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf.
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