Example sentences of "to [noun] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to parliament at the beginning of June , the Dutch Minister of Culture , Mrs Hedy D'Ancona , made known her decision to allow the deaccessioning of the works of art to go ahead . |
| 2 | Apart from the usual salute to Artemisia at the beginning , the drift of the poem is towards criticism rather than praise . |
| 3 | Longer term we hope to distribute software to researchers at the beginning of their data collection so that documentation can be produced in standard format and in machine-readable form . |
| 4 | He spends six months each year in the U.S. but returns to Romania at the beginning of April when the operation is expected to be performed . |
| 5 | The Leader of the Opposition said in his letter to supporters at the beginning of this year that Britain had a £20 billion trade deficit , when the truth was that the deficit fell by a half and the right hon. Gentleman 's figures were wholly wrong . |
| 6 | Before the National Government banned Britons going to Spain at the beginning of 1937 there were already more than 600 men in the British Battalion of the International Brigade , organized by the Communist Party of Great Britain , while others , such as George Orwell , identified with the Independent Labour Party activists who fought with POUM , a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist group . |
| 7 | When the Nationalists launched their third attack , on 3 January 1937 , their forces had been reinforced considerably , especially by Italian and German aircraft , including the German " Condor Legion " , despatched to Spain at the beginning of November and allowed by Franco to use the Spanish war as a practice ground for devastating new techniques of destruction and terror . |
| 8 | And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected . |
| 9 | Evans kept a note of his expenditure in a little black book which he presented to Grunte at the beginning of each Summer Recess . |
| 10 | When the Institute 's working party on openness reported to Council at the beginning of the year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 13 ) , it endorsed the idea of letting the sunshine in on some of the Institute 's important but less controversial public interest functions . |
| 11 | He flew to Hamburg at the beginning of May in order to attend the postponed ceremony for the Hanseatic-Goethe prize and to give an address on " Goethe the Sage " . |
| 12 | Of the latter , one was dedicated to King Henry II of England in a prologue taken almost word for word from Bede 's preface to Ceolwulf at the beginning of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People . |
| 13 | He flew from London to Sweden at the beginning of December , and at the ceremony on 10 December he was described as " a leader and champion of a new period in the long history of the world 's poetry " . |
| 14 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
| 15 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 16 | It is best to staff at the beginning . |
| 17 | A long-term government plan came to fruition at the beginning of 1990 when it was announced that Taiwan was to apply to accede to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 18 | And yet he could see how different it must have looked in the summer , how it would have appealed to Alex at the beginning of his supposed new start , and to Lesley-Jane in the throes of her first grown-up affair . |
| 19 | Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920 ; Lady More recalled some of Sir Jasper 's memories ; Colonel Sykes remembered that , as a boy , the engine driver used to allow him to drive the train when he returned to school at the beginning of term ; and Mrs Lucy Hemmings had regularly tested the milk carried by the train for the Creamery . |
| 20 | Numerous labels have been attached to the political system which Ivan the Great bequeathed to Muscovy at the beginning of the sixteenth century — oriental despotism ( Plekhanov , Szamuely ) , patrimonial monarchy ( Pipes ) , estate-representative monarchy ( Cherepnin ) . |
| 21 | This fell back to 51% at the beginning of the 1980s , and only recovered in 1989 . |
| 22 | Sue Woolley 's book has now been printed and will be despatched to subscribers at the beginning of March . |
| 23 | ‘ I am frightened at not hearing from Cruikshanks , ’ he wrote to Poole at the beginning of November . |