Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] beginning " in BNC.

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1 Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call .
2 I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me .
3 Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation .
4 As the bell rang a third time to indicate the beginning of lessons , the girls moved into four groups around four tables , and the teachers came into the room to start the Bible class .
5 I want you to reach the beginning of Day 15 and the next weighing and measuring session without having faltered seriously .
6 It really is splendid , an easy walk with just a short ascent to reach the beginning of the ridge .
7 In order to discuss the beginning of the universe , we need a theory that combines general relativity with quantum mechanics .
8 At this point I must go back in time to record the beginning of my own friendship with Ivy Compton-Burnett .
9 The recording of fades to mark the beginning and end of a sequence is another of those chores which is easier to carry out during post-production editing than during live shooting .
10 After all , if it were to be something to mark the beginning of a new stage in her life , then she could make it clear that this new life would n't involve any further outings with him .
11 In accordance with a Japanese tradition , Mr Akashi coloured in one eye of the dog when the UN moved into Cambodia , to mark the beginning of the mission .
12 The agreement is said to mark the beginning of a close strategic alliance between the two companies .
13 It is this decision which is taken to mark the beginning of the Hundred Years War .
14 We take this paper to mark the beginning of the era of modern computing , since it was the " first widely circulated document about high speed computers " ( Knuth 1970 ) .
15 He showed her the cases with other small flags on pins : these he used in the autumn to mark the beginning of the vintages , and the card-index where he kept the regional weather reports year before year .
16 … ? ’ and various other forms which can be used to mark the beginning of a joke or anecdote .
17 Although the Avar army withdrew after sacking towns in Friuli and killing the Duke of Friuli , the raid of 610 appears to mark the beginning of Slav colonisation of the upper Sava valley .
18 In April 1932 RAPP was disbanded , and although in the Soviet Union the ensuing liberalising effect was only temporary , lasting until 1935–6 when rigid cultural controls were reintroduced under the watchful eye of Zhdanov , in France , by contrast , 1932 was to mark the beginning of a prolonged period not only of cultural liberalisation within the PCF but also of political co-operation between communists and fellow-travelling sympathisers .
19 If you want to use the counter to mark the beginning of a section in the middle of the tape ( as for section 2 in the picture below ) , remember this will affect the numbering for the rest of the tape .
20 In retrospect it can be seen to mark the beginning of the end of the Pahlavi dynasty , which the Shah 's father had founded just fifty years before .
21 In addition , synthesis often requires the use of a facet indicator , to mark the beginning of a new facet ; for example , ‘ , ’ , ‘ : ’ .
22 The agreement was designed to mark the beginning of a process of consultation on how the principles of self-government could be implemented , including the possibility of greater Indian autonomy in areas such as policing , judicial affairs , education , health care and the use of natural resources .
23 An island-driving algorithm will explore those paths that ultimately fail to match the beginning and ending of the utterance .
24 The egalitarian implications of this announcement led the Governor-General of Moscow to ask the tsar for clarification , with the result that on 30 March Alexander made the oral remarks which are usually taken to represent the beginning of the emancipation process .
25 In the first example the stressed syllables in the high head step downwards progressively to approach the beginning of the tone :
26 ‘ I like a film to have a beginning , a middle and an ending , preferably in that order , so I can follow it , ’ he says , Mortimer 's screenplay knowingly making him paraphrase Godard 's view that a ‘ film must have a beginning , a middle and an ending , not necessarily in that order . ’
27 In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " .
28 Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline .
29 ‘ Eh bien , my friends , ’ he said , brushing a crumb of cheese straw from the lapel of his immaculately pressed suit , ‘ it is time to make the beginning .
30 to make the beginning
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