Example sentences of "in [noun] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | His return route is not known but he was much quicker than on his way out as he arrived in Moscow at the beginning of February , 1718 , only 8 months after he left Peking . |
| 2 | The newly-formed arch group ( Art Restoration for Cultural Heritage ; see The Art Newspaper , No.15 , February 1992 , p.2 ) , under the leadership of Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza , held its first meeting in Lugano at the beginning of June . |
| 3 | Life in Parma at the beginning of the school year seemed normal apart from the Fascist propaganda in the papers , but one began to sense that the members of the Party were becoming even more arrogant and domineering than before , and that it was increasingly important for people with different ideas to keep them to themselves and never to discuss politics . |
| 4 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |
| 5 | In Scotland , the universities had always had strong scientific and philosophical traditions ; but in England at the beginning of the century neither of the two universities was a centre of scientific research . |
| 6 | ‘ It was incredible , it was like a bomb going off , ’ was how Pat described the opening ; just as in England at the beginning , there were days when customers had to be locked out and long queues formed . |
| 7 | From what he told me I know for a fact the IRA did n't use Mick during their bombing campaign in England at the beginning of the war . ’ |
| 8 | It is therefore essential that the control mechanisms for each are put in place at the beginning of the design stage . |
| 9 | Of the staff employed in universities at the beginning of 1854 50 per cent had left their posts by the end of 1862 . |
| 10 | With Britain playing a prominent role , government officials met in Geneva at the beginning of December 1958 to discuss , without being bound in any way by their own governments , the possibility of rescuing a smaller free trade area from the wreck of Maudling . |
| 11 | ‘ This kind of weight reduction ca n't be met by plastic 's rivals — and it all adds up to a reduction in waste at the beginning of the cycle , which is where the environmental action should start ! ’ |
| 12 | Reaumur went to live in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century and his initial contact with the academie came through an interest in mathematics . |
| 13 | Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River . |
| 14 | The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London . |
| 15 | Plan your menus in advance at the beginning of the next four weeks . |
| 16 | The first traces seem to have appeared in Peru at the beginning of the second millennium B.C. By the birth of Christ a relatively complex metallurgy , including rich goldsmithery , was being practised in Panama and Costa Rica . |
| 17 | In Britain at the beginning of the century the naval dockyards were among the largest industrial concerns ; and there Marc Brunel first introduced high technology in the form of machinery for making pulley-blocks for the rigging of warships . |
| 18 | Coco Chanel was born in France at the beginning of the century . |
| 19 | A year later , they have demonstrated a fully functioning , pre-production prototype with assurances of a launch in Japan at the beginning of 1992 at a price equivalent to US$1,000 . |
| 20 | ‘ I was up in Oxford at the beginning of this week , ’ she said , as casually as she could . |
| 21 | This ‘ doctrine invented in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century ’ was then exported to other parts of the world as a result of colonial expansion , and this — rather than any popular revolt against colonial rule — accounts for the nationalist movements of the twentieth century , led by nationalist intellectuals who are ‘ marginal ’ to their own societies . |
| 22 | The movement was launched in Namibia at the beginning of last year and has offered a new dimension to the lads ’ Christianity . |
| 23 | This comment was made in Cairo at the beginning of a visit to the region which also involved tense discussions in Israel [ see p. 37760 ] . |
| 24 | In Jade at the beginning of it . |
| 25 | Including the 2 new entrants , there were 22 marketmakers in gilts at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 26 | British Coal had 133 producing collieries in operation at the beginning of the financial year 1986-87 , which produced 88 million tonnes of coal . |
| 27 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 28 | Set in Uppsala at the beginning of the century , it tells the story of Bergman 's parents , and will be made for two different formats : as a four-part series for televsion , and as two feature films for cinemas . |
| 29 | Ms Gibson claimed she tried to telephone when she arrived in Marbella at the beginning of the month but could not get through because her friend 's number was engaged all night . |
| 30 | Conversely , the landlord will not be entitled to maintain an advertisement on any part of the demised property , even if the advertisement was in position at the beginning of the tenancy ( Re Webb 's Lease [ 1952 ] Ch 808 ) . |