Example sentences of "[noun sg] the beginning " in BNC.

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1 D. Section 8 VOTING at present the beginning of this section reads :
2 Defeat of the Axis troops in Tunisia marked in Churchill 's words ‘ the end of the beginning ’ but for the enemy the beginning of the end and was indeed the turning point of the Second World War .
3 So again it 's just thinking about the eyes the eye the beginning .
4 Sun was expecting to deliver hundreds of Tsunami boxes around the world the first weekend in November and to have thousands going out the door the beginning of December .
5 He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass .
6 As for Diana , the arrival of Actaeon in the cave the beginning of the end .
7 In fact the beginning of the great fall was being acted out in Irish rugby .
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