Example sentences of "start of [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marcus night junior , though at the start of her second year , was on her first spell of nights . |
| 2 | After a broken rudder , an unlucky windshift , a dubious umpires ' penalty and meeting rivals New Zealand and Il Moro di Venezia on the top of their form , the luckless Nippon 's 150lb carbon-fibre boom crumpled six minutes before the start of her second clash with Il Moro . |
| 3 | Wherever the game is played , and the possibility of alternate years in Manchester and Sydney will be discussed in the coming weeks , one team will always go into the match having just become champions , while the other will be at the start of their first defence . |
| 4 | Prior to enrolment at the start of their first year , the University will send to all EC students forms to enable them to apply for a mandatory award . |
| 5 | At the start of their third year , the technical training department arranged for the youngsters to work alongside Shell trainees at the Altens training centre . |
| 6 | Yorkshire is a cold place and I could remember the sensation almost of shock at the start of my first winter in Darrowby . |
| 7 | ‘ Colin Harvey bought Mike Newell for the start of my second season and I ended up in the reserves , with all the publicity and pressure that brought . |
| 8 | The start of our second week takes us to the Nappa Valley and the heart of California 's cheese and wine country . |
| 9 | ‘ You know , Boyo , this is the start of our fifth day here in Normandy and we have been stuck in these bloody slit trenches having all kinds of shit thrown at us . |
| 10 | The end of THIS becomes the start of your first village . |
| 11 | Often a tape is purchased , with the hypnotist 's voice making new suggestions such as ‘ you will be relaxed at the start of your next race ’ , or ‘ when you reach the half-way point in the race , you will find new energy ’ or ‘ when you go to the next committee meeting , you will not feel dominated by the others , but will feel free to express your views without fear ’ : the applications of this technique are endless . |
| 12 | One of Lewis 's more ambitious poems , ‘ The Jungle ’ , ends with a question — ‘ does the will 's long struggle end / With the last kindness of a foe or friend ? ’ — a question answered on 5 March 1944 when , hours before the start of his first patrol against the Japanese on the north Burma coast , he did himself that kindness with a shot from his own revolver . |
| 13 | At the start of his first visit — to Thailand on Sept. 26-30 — the Emperor told King Bhumibol Adulyadej that Japan had " resolved that it would live as a nation of peace , so that it should never repeat the horrors of that most unfortunate war " , and that Japan had made " unremitting efforts " to build " new friendships " in the region . |
| 14 | Li Peng 's arrival in Italy on Jan. 26 marked the start of his first visit to the West since the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |