Example sentences of "[conj] the beginning " in BNC.

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1 I want the tall high beechtrees round my bedroom window , I want the night rustle of the wind round the house , in moonlight or the beginning of rain or storms …
2 It should be pointed out , however , that — in contrast to the oil ‘ death line ’ ( at 1.35% Rm ) — the ‘ death line ’ for dry gas does not indicate the end of gas generation , or the beginning of gas destruction .
3 USL must wait for OSF/DCE 1.0.3 for this and is hoping to have something out at the end of 1993 or the beginning of 1994 .
4 The software is expected to be deliverable by the end of 1992 or the beginning of 1993 .
5 Also previewed in Vienna was version 6.08 of the SAS system , the company 's collection of statistical , analysis and reporting packages — what it calls its information delivery system — which will be available from the fourth quarter , or the beginning of 1993 in Unix flavours .
6 Hardraw is a good starting point for Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat , the two hills that flank the famous Butter Tubs Pass , and is known to many who have walked the Pennine Way as either the end or the beginning of the day that takes you from Tan Hill to Hawes or vice versa , depending on which direction you are walking .
7 Was this the end of the lunch hour or the beginning of rush hour ?
8 Now when will the part that the authority pay for the lump sum come in , will that be at the end of August or the beginning of Sept or the end of September .
9 Er a typical view down the assembly track or the beginning of the assembly track .
10 I suppose that the traditional interpretation of this text would be like saying that the beginning of worry or the beginning of anxiety is the end of faith .
11 It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago .
12 A key weakness of conventional forecasting methods is that they often fail to capture the ‘ turning points ’ — the onset of recession or the beginning of recovery .
13 The new appointments , all made at the end of 1861 or the beginning of 1862 , bespoke a regime that was about to make further changes .
14 How about , how about coursework which is n't actually due in yet like stuff for the end of this term or the beginning of next , I mean do you reckon you 'll be able to have a , have a stab at that some time ?
15 After tomorrow the annual financial statement and programme will be announced in Parliament round about the end of November or the beginning of December .
16 fix up a date , end of April or the beginning of May and
17 It is not the end of the conversation ( nor the beginning ) 2 .
18 And , as I stooped to get back under cover , I recalled that there would , even from the sanest , be a concession to superstition that would be gone by the morning , a belief that the beginning of the year foreshadowed the character of the rest .
19 The guiding line of St William 's initial panorama is that the beginning of the decade of the 1990s marks off a new era .
20 A long-term decrease in ozone might systematically affect stratospheric temperatures so that the beginning of winter could be colder than in our simulations .
21 Would you like that one again , In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good now we have the dug out how food is presented erm can say so much , at least it does to me and , so that , so that the beginning of this poem became from er the food , piece of food held in the hand of the mayor in this picture .
22 Thus , it may be that the beginning of an orthographic paragraph indicates a point of topic-shift , but it need not do so .
23 If one extrapolates the results of the sum over histories from imaginary time to real time , one finds that the beginning of the universe in real time can be very different from its end .
24 ‘ He has reminded me that the beginning of a reign is a traditional time for the pardoning of malefactors , ’ he said .
25 I suppose that the traditional interpretation of this text would be like saying that the beginning of worry or the beginning of anxiety is the end of faith .
26 And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway .
27 If the classical theory of general relativity was correct , the singularity theorems that Roger Penrose and I proved show that the beginning of time would have been a point of infinite density and infinite curvature of space-time .
28 The pile of messages that greeted Loretta when she arrived at her college just after twelve next day was a sure sign that the beginning of term was only two days away .
29 Some psycholinguistic models ( e.g. Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) assume that the beginning of a word is known , either because it is at the beginning of the utterance or because the previous word has been identified .
30 The end , rather than the beginning , of 1991 seems to be the choice of many pundits .
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