Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffee was a nauseous substitute concocted from acorns ; bread had already been rationed by the beginning of 1915 to about 2 Ibs a week , and goodness knows what was added to the flour to make it so grey and gritty ! |
| 2 | During those talks , Mr Shevardnadze said all military aid to Nicaragua has been frozen since the beginning of the year , but that weapons may still be reaching Nicaragua from Cuba . |
| 3 | A general rise in crime had also been reported since the beginning of the year , following an amnesty which had led to a large number of convicted offenders being released from prison [ see p. 37192 ] . |
| 4 | In late May 1991 it was reported that there had been a serious outbreak of dengue fever in the Cook Islands , with almost 800 cases having been reported since the beginning of the year . |
| 5 | A better name would seem to be Cadomian , after the Roman name for Caen in Normandy , where all the Precambrian sediments seem to have been tectonised before the beginning of the early Palaeozoic . |
| 6 | Already over 400 people have been shed since the beginning of the year , and the Prime Computer Inc that is going public on revised terms and will change its name to Computervision Corp , will end up with 5,900 people , and annual sales of some $1,200m , mainly computer-aided design software and maintenance . |
| 7 | Parish Mill is thought to have been built around the beginning of the 18th century and , later in its life , formed part of the property of The Charity Trustees of Longhope . |
| 8 | In island-driving left context is unavailable , while in the left-to-right strategies discussed previously right context is only available if some match , even if only a poor one , has been made to the beginning of the unit in question . |
| 9 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 10 | In the case of an incomplete plan it is very difficult to fit in later what has been overlooked in the beginning . |
| 11 | This market has already been used at the beginning of the chapter to introduce the concept and purpose of ‘ the money market ’ . |
| 12 | The European Parliament voted by a large majority in January 1990 to freeze scientific co-operation between EC countries and Israel until universities on the West Bank , which had been closed since the beginning of the uprising , were reopened . |
| 13 | There were no non-sick ( workhouse ) beds at the Bedford Institution ; they had been closed at the beginning of the war . |
| 14 | The passion generated by the abortion issue , however , meant that such measures were bitterly opposed and few had been approved by the beginning of March 1990 . |
| 15 | If the subject-matter is sequential , the teacher must ask himself whether it is essential that step A is known to have been mastered before the beginning of step B , and what is the essential minimum ; he will then go on to decide how the achievement of that minimum can be tested , what can be done for those who do not reach it , and whether the material is such that comprehension or insight might be expected to dawn at later stages after more exposure to the subject field . |
| 16 | Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity . |
| 17 | He had , in fact , been preparing for an operation to remove his hernia , which had been scheduled for the beginning of January , but because of his winter illnesses it was postponed until the summer . |
| 18 | It had not seemed possible to him that the fair creature could still be alive , for messages from native sources had indicated that Krishnapur had been invested since the beginning of June . |
| 19 | All round his dingy housing-association flat in Stoke Newington , close to Amhurst Road , where he had been arrested at the beginning of the 1970s , were the signs of the new affluence . |
| 20 | All right , he was what he was : he was n't fundamentally a nice man , yet , had he been greeted in the beginning by this old woman as Andrew Jones had , how different things might have been . |
| 21 | Jordi García Candau , a journalist and lawyer , was on Feb. 26 , 1990 , appointed director-general of Radio Televisión Española ( RTVE ) , replacing Luis Solana who had been appointed at the beginning of 1989 [ see p. 36776 ] . |
| 22 | This Reformed or Calvinist doctrine of grace and salvation was clearly reflected in Cranmer 's Forty-Two Articles of Faith issued in 1553 ; Article Seventeen in particular declared : ‘ predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God ’ , and it went on to imply that individual salvation and damnation had been decreed at the beginning of creation , even before the Fall of Adam and Eve . |
| 23 | While the hazards of the algae have been documented since the beginning of the century in places such as Australia and the United States , it has only become a serious problem in Europe recently . |
| 24 | Mr Lee stood firmly by the decisions that had been taken in collaboration with members of the RSSPCC , who had been involved from the beginning in the disclosure work with the eight W children who 'd been taken away then . |
| 25 | Referring to China 's alleged delivery of 24 T-59 tanks to the guerrillas in the previous two months , the Economist of Oct. 27 said that in fact 12-20 " clapped out " tanks had been delivered at the beginning of the year , and were probably still on the Thai-Cambodian border , as their value was mainly psychological . |
| 26 | After 18 months of monetary restraint , it was the fifth cut to have been effected since the beginning of 1990 ( by the end of the year the basic rate had been reduced to 12 per cent ) . |
| 27 | What one believes to have been the effects of the growth and elaboration of the hierarchy on the attitudes both of scholars towards their own role and of others towards scholars has been discussed at the beginning of the chapter , but one may , perhaps , in conclusion , briefly reinforce the point by quoting a remark attributed to the Grand Vezir Karamani Mehmed Pas a concerning Hocazade . |
| 28 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International of Oct. 31 , 1989 , claimed that more than 500 people had been tortured since the beginning of 1989 , and that the use of torture had continued " unabated " despite Turkey 's ratification of international agreements against torture [ see pp. 35984 ; 36565 ] . |
| 29 | According to FECODE , the situation is not improving : 47 teachers have been killed since the beginning of 1991 and more than 400 have received death threats . |
| 30 | The military estimated on Dec. 4 that 1,853 guerrillas and 450 government troops had been killed since the beginning of the offensive launched by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) in San Salvador on Nov. 11 . |