Example sentences of "of [noun] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) . |
| 2 | You spoke of personnel at the beginning ; the number of staff on the City Council in the last ten years has doubled . |
| 3 | The most important ingredient in the construction stage is time but , although this is sometimes a source of worry at the beginning , in practice it is often found that this stage is less time-consuming than the planning stages . |
| 4 | ‘ It would need an increase of 100 per cent in the ewe premiums for the farmers to get back to their previous levels of income at the beginning of the 1980s . ’ |
| 5 | If A Song to David , in which he attempted a new and regular form of the ode , was written on an upswing of creativity at the beginning of a psychotic episode , and the psalms translation made during convalescence afterwards , Jubilate Agno is particularly important because its internal dates strongly suggest it was composed during his confinement , and from day to day of his illness , during the period 27 July to 30 January 1763 , just before his release . |
| 6 | ‘ I AM familiar with the feelings of operators at the beginning of an accident ’ , writes Gregori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s . |
| 7 | I do not remember now who wrote it , but it is no doubt from a modern German author , perhaps a philosopher , and it expresses exactly my state of mind at the beginning of 1958 . |
| 8 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 9 | Since HWIM 's grammar was far less tightly constrained than the finite state grammar used in HARPY , the system hypothesised a considerable number of words at the beginning of an utterance . |
| 10 | The eighteen twenties and thirties saw fashion moving from the Empire line , which was , had a very small bodice and a skirt that flowed down straight to the ground to a lower waisted dress with big sleeves and a shorter skirt , and the impression of a little girl , a little sort of bouncy girl who was all skippy and everything , which reflected really the feeling of optimism at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The retrospective exhibition of the art of Alfred Sisley which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts at the beginning of July closes in London on 18 October but continues , with a slightly different selection of works , at the Musée d'Orsay , Paris ( 30 October-31 January 1993 ) and at the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore ( 14 March-13 June 1993 ) , its only venue in the United States . |
| 12 | The statement of reasons of a Community legislative measure is contained in a series of paragraphs at the beginning of the measure . |
| 13 | The commission had blamed the security forces for the deaths of four people in post-election violence in the northern city of Shkodër at the beginning of April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 14 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 15 | The irony is that the matting was being laid on a fresh carpet of 3 inches of snow at the beginning of December ! |
| 16 | Typically , the first action he describes was a mistake : the bombing of Freiburg at the beginning of the war by a squadron of the Luftwaffe believing itself to be over Dijon . |
| 17 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 18 | The census of 1931 which describes the distribution of workers at the beginning of Orwell 's decade , recorded twice as many workers in domestic service as there were miners ( about two million , compared with one million miners ) . |
| 19 | Finally , all manuals should end with an index which supplements the table of contents at the beginning . |
| 20 | As has been shown above , the movement denoted by to can be intercepted at some point before its term to evoke a support at some remove from the position occupied by the representation of person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event , thus giving rise to the impression which we have called " subsequent potentiality " ( He struggled to get free ) . |
| 21 | Also , by singular misfortune , he was followed by Dr Montagu Butler , who was translated to the Mastership of Trinity at the beginning of his second term . |
| 22 | Bonhams ' disclaimer for quality of service at the beginning should sound a note of warning : bad restoration is worse than no restoration . |
| 23 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 24 | Herodotus made Atossa advise Xerxes to conquer Greece ; Theopompus put the personality of Philip at the beginning of his history of the Macedonian conquest of Greece . |
| 25 | ( This recalls the burning of Atlanta at the beginning : here it is the novel Textermination which is auto-destructing . ) |
| 26 | In a letter to the Ministry of Education at the beginning of 1955 , in the midst of the negotiations following the publication of the Report , the National Secretary had actually put a figure on this , saying that the various Districts would like thirty more full-time tutors . |
| 27 | Lord Melchett , educated at Eton , former Labour Minister of State for Northern Ireland , became head of Greenpeace at the beginning of 1989 , near the beginning of the membership boom . |
| 28 | The argument runs that in the absence of their predators , performance is better and that when such predators , be they animal , fungus or other pathogen , catch up with the crops or evolve to attack them , disaster follows , as occurred in the coffee harvests of Malaya at the beginning of the century and in the banana-growing countries of Central and northern South America before that . |
| 29 | The introduction of the life peerage system and the fact that peers can apply for leave of absence at the beginning of each session has tended to redress this although those taking the Conservative Whip constitute the largest single grouping . |
| 30 | The great shake-out of particles at the beginning of the solar system 's life , the way they can recombine to give altered secondary atmospheres , is a feature of great importance in explaining how life took hold . |