Example sentences of "the [noun sg] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | T : two things to establish for the writer at the beginning of the story one the situation what is the situation * at the beginning of the story * anybody what 's the situation Douglas * have you read the story Douglas S : no sir T : ah that wo n't help then will it who 's read the story what is the situation at the beginning SS : ( laughter ) T : £ is it Michael S : Carl T : what 's the situation at the beginning simple detail situation what where what is the story about at the beginning * have you read it S : no sir T : right who 's read it * Sarah ( Walsh 1987 : 82 ) |
| 2 | As the board at the beginning of the exhibition states : ‘ Paintings of the nude have , in the past , aroused both controversial and moralising responses . |
| 3 | I appreciate roses more than snow , but that was not the case at the beginning . |
| 4 | It has been further complicated by the fact that officers dealing with the case at the beginning of its history have left or been replaced . |
| 5 | Compare the the text at the beginning with hers , the the the Middle English text with hers , and tell me , is there anything which she has caught well , or anything which she has missed out , or look at the first sentence , is she right there ? |
| 6 | In the example , both counterparties put up initial margin on day 1 of 200 , which is 20 per cent of the value of the contract at the beginning of day 1 . |
| 7 | The first task of the Chairman at the beginning of any meeting is to decide if there is a quorum present . |
| 8 | Where this is available , the audience should be made aware of it ( by notices , or by an announcement by the Chairman at the beginning of the meeting ) . |
| 9 | for loans — the maximum liability in the period , the amount of any arrears of interest , the amount of the liability at the beginning and end of the period , any provision against non-repayment of principal or interest . |
| 10 | You know the bit at the beginning goes or something stupid like that . |
| 11 | The letter H. To drop one 's aitches is to fail to pronounce the /h/ at the beginning or end of a word by saying , for instance , 'am instead of ham . |
| 12 | In real terms , UK consumer borrowing has been falling through the period of the recession , in contrast to the experience at the beginning of the last decade when credit was deregulated . |
| 13 | Strategy 1 involves the purchase at the beginning of the year of all the shares in the stock index ( i.e. all the shares in the FTSE100 index with the appropriate weights ) . |
| 14 | We do n't normally give the verdict at the beginning of the review , but what the heck : this MIDI preamp from Marshall had the collective pulse rate quickening by the minute , as rack and reviewers put each other through their paces . |
| 15 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 16 | Not a UFO hanging high above Rennie House but one of five new water coolers , each of ten tonnes , being hoisted onto the roof at the beginning of April . |
| 17 | The riff at the beginning of This Charming Man has just got to be one of the best guitar riffs ever ! |
| 18 | This moves the weaving yarn automatically to the leading edge of the carriage at the beginning of every row . |
| 19 | Broadly speaking , sound was good but Mr Ponor felt the sound of the carriage at the beginning was a little distracting and went on for too long . |
| 20 | The interview at the beginning is embarrassing enough to make you think that maybe Normski will end up this way . |
| 21 | This year South West London MEP Anita Pollock cut the tape at the beginning of the walk which visited 15 London Embassies . |
| 22 | However , it was obviously not deemed grand enough by the Moon of the manor at the beginning of the seventeenth century who built on the exquisite Renaissance porch in Purbeck limestone . |
| 23 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 24 | Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo . |
| 25 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 26 | Revised terms of reference for the Practice Committee were agreed by the Council at the beginning of the year . |
| 27 | Richard Wilson 's oil room , ‘ 20.50 ’ , created in the gallery at the beginning of 1991 , remains on permanent view . |
| 28 | 75 per cent of subjects in this condition included a statement about the overall theme of the passage at the beginning of their recall protocols even though this information had actually been presented at the end of the passage and subjects were instructed to recall the passage verbatim . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , mounting intercommunal tensions in Foca centred on the dismissal at the beginning of the month of some 100 Serb employees from a local bus company . |
| 30 | They have to find out , for example , if their language drops the pronoun at the beginning of a sentence . |