Example sentences of "of [noun pl] 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The statement of reasons of a Community legislative measure is contained in a series of paragraphs at the beginning of the measure . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Finally , all manuals should end with an index which supplements the table of contents at the beginning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The effect of this profoundly important innovation was that members of Congress were required to vote up or down the administration 's complete package of cuts at the beginning of the congressional phase of the budgetary process . |
| 11 | An aggravation of symptoms at the beginning of treatment , i.e. with low potencies , is a sign of over-stimulation ( too much intensity ) and indicates the dose was too high . |
| 12 | So , for example , when I ask a group of students at the beginning of an interdisciplinary course in women 's writing and the visual arts , to come up with the names of any contemporary women artists , they can rarely mention more than one or two . |
| 13 | When you reach shoulder shaping in a pattern it will generally instruct you in the time-honoured way to ‘ cast off ’ as group of stitches at the beginning of the next given number of rows . |
| 14 | The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half . |