Example sentences of "[to-vb] the 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 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 5 | JTR was not around to see the beginnings of political comment in Scottish art ; his life took a new path far removed from the galleries and drawing rooms of artistic Edinburgh . |
| 6 | Though the antecedents are ancient , it was not until the 1960s that one could begin to see the beginnings of what we now call global competition in other than oil and similar natural resource-processing industries . |
| 7 | This most unpleasant task was completed yesterday , and from our new positions it was possible to see the beginnings of conflict between the Croats and the Titos , which ended in the wounding of some 30 to 40 Croats after which the shooting died down . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Strong naval forces , including three aircraft carrier battle groups , headed for the Indian Ocean and other nearby areas ; land-based airpower , F-15s and B-52s , was established in the Arabian peninsula ; and the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division was also deployed to provide the beginnings of a ground force presence within what came to be spoken of as ‘ Operation Desert Shield ’ . |
| 10 | I want you to reach the beginning of Day 15 and the next weighing and measuring session without having faltered seriously . |
| 11 | It really is splendid , an easy walk with just a short ascent to reach the beginning of the ridge . |
| 12 | In order to discuss the beginning of the universe , we need a theory that combines general relativity with quantum mechanics . |
| 13 | The pattern recognition should also be able to identify the beginnings of words much more accurately than at present , and more investigation of the efficacy of some measure of word length would be useful . |
| 14 | At this point I must go back in time to record the beginning of my own friendship with Ivy Compton-Burnett . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The agreement is said to mark the beginning of a close strategic alliance between the two companies . |
| 19 | It is this decision which is taken to mark the beginning of the Hundred Years War . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | … ? ’ and various other forms which can be used to mark the beginning of a joke or anecdote . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In addition , synthesis often requires the use of a facet indicator , to mark the beginning of a new facet ; for example , ‘ , ’ , ‘ : ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An island-driving algorithm will explore those paths that ultimately fail to match the beginning and ending of the utterance . |
| 30 | 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 . |