Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes sir , er ever since P P G three was revised at the beginning of last year , I believe that the department has been moving steadily in the direction that indicated but certainly my brief here is quite specific . |
| 2 | Much publicity was given at the beginning of this year to claims that large numbers of offences are committed by offenders who are already on bail as a result of other charges . |
| 3 | The second lecture , closely connected with the first and , like the first , closing with a portentous allusion to contemporary music drama , was given at the beginning of February , and dealt with the mysterious " death " of tragedy at the end of the fifth century . |
| 4 | Serious consideration was given at the beginning of the year to the present public , parliamentary and media relations . |
| 5 | Sullom Voe 's major tank maintenance programme was completed at the beginning of last month . |
| 6 | This effectively marked the end of William Whitelaw 's service as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and he was succeeded at the beginning of December by Francis Pym . |
| 7 | It was reported at the beginning of October that the Lao government had issued a decree suspending the commercial exploitation of timber resources . |
| 8 | At the National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) an early CAI program was designed at the beginning of the seventies in conjunction with the George Washington University Medical Centre . |
| 9 | The way towards permanent absentee government was prepared at the beginning of Edward 's reign when the king was actually in Gascony . |
| 10 | The first portrait ( top left ) was made at the beginning of his reign , in about 30 BC , and is derived from Hellenistic royal models ( compare fig. 14 ) . |
| 11 | The announcement was made at the beginning of October . |
| 12 | There was also " … a considerable quantity of small ore which was got at the beginning of the work and can not be weighed until stamped or broken by an Engine and washed for which purpose they are going to erect one to go be water with all speed and were disstressed for some sycamore wood for the water wheel . " |
| 13 | He has become an expendable symbol of the 21 years lost by Czechoslovaks since the invasion of August 1968 , for he had taken over , apparently without compunction , from Mr Alexander Dubcek as Communist Party leader when the latter was humiliated at the beginning of 1969 . |
| 14 | So successful was the system that it was reintroduced at the beginning of World War II . |
| 15 | The home ranked with the church as the place of religious allegiance , and this was symbolized at the beginning and end of the day by family prayers . |
| 16 | Against the strong objections of Slovenia and Croatia ( but ultimately without their veto ) , the retention ratio system was replaced at the beginning of 1986 by a system which claimed to be directed towards the establishment of a free market in foreign exchange . |
| 17 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
| 18 | Their first league game was played at the beginning of September , at the Glenpatrick Road pitch . |
| 19 | The range of public library services , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , is now much broader than merely books and readers , and perhaps these logos should have made more attempt to reflect this greater concern for information services in the widest sense . |
| 20 | It was noted at the beginning of this chapter that early European travellers brought back objects to represent the peoples of other lands and , through the arrangement of these objects in museums , contributed to the development of early theories of social evolution and diffusion ( Steadman 1979 ) . |
| 21 | As was noted at the beginning of this chapter , personal selling is one part of the promotional activities of the organization , which brings us on to a consideration of the next item : sales promotion activities . |
| 22 | The criteria mentioned above have often been employed , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , in the construction of very broad evolutionary schemes , but these have been increasingly criticized — in Marxist thought as elsewhere — for their excessively abstract depiction of the ‘ stages of development ’ which seem to fit very loosely the actual changes in political systems in different regions of the world and in determinate historical periods . |
| 23 | The technique of flutter-tonguing , where the player rolls the tongue instead of precisely articulating individual notes , may be used for particular effect in quiet passages ; now quite commonly used , it was introduced at the beginning of this century by R. Strauss and Mahler . |
| 24 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 25 | As was indicated at the beginning of this book , many newcomers hold strong views on the desired social and aesthetic qualities of the English village . |
| 26 | A careful clinical questionnaire was defined at the beginning of this study , each patient being asked about the presence of heartburn , regurgitation , and dysphagia . |
| 27 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |
| 28 | In 1793 , in a more striking case , a boy of seventeen was left at the beginning of the struggle with the French revolution as the sole British representative at the military headquarters of the king of Prussia . |
| 29 | The row was signalled at the beginning of the year , and when the commissioner went public , it can have been no surprise , whatever ministers said . ’ |
| 30 | The service was revived at the beginning of the 1960s by the injection of government funding and was stimulated by honourable mention from two major inquiries . |