Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 2 | In verses 5 and 6 Peter makes direct reference to the flood of judgment which came upon the earth in the days of Noah and at the end of the preceding verse 4 he writes of how the scoffers will say that ‘ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the CREATION . ’ |
| 3 | The new courts and departments established under the Tudors were from the beginning staffed by laymen : there was no question of clerical officials being appointed to the Courts of Wards or Augmentations . |
| 4 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 5 | For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of . |
| 6 | It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 7 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 8 | The students , among whom a significant proportion was female , were at the beginning of a two year full time course on subjects familiar to CIT students . |
| 9 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 10 | It was like the beginning of healing to get into their seats and kneel beside Moran , no longer exposed . |
| 11 | His name was near the beginning . |
| 12 | That was in the beginning . |
| 13 | The same was in the beginning with God . |
| 14 | Yes , well this is , this is what the intention of the comprehensive school was in the beginning was to ha , let every child have the same opportunity which I 'm sure they 're getting in the comprehensive school . |
| 15 | That was in the beginning , during our honeymoon period . |
| 16 | There are lots of bits of evidence that suggest that the Bible has been consistently rewritten to make it more monotheistic than it really was in the beginning . |
| 17 | As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end . |
| 18 | was in the beginning of eighteen ninety nine . |
| 19 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 20 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 21 | Painting was from the beginning one of the most important instruments of conquest in the sphere of thinking , the mind . |
| 22 | But it was from the beginning an erotic exercise . |
| 23 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 24 | Basil 's widowed father , a natural son of the Earl of Sandwich , formed part of Wordsworth 's circle of London friends , and the proposal that Wordsworth and Dorothy should become responsible for the child was from the beginning an important part of their plans for life at Racedown . |
| 25 | In Christ all things have become new , and yet everything remains as it was from the beginning … ’ |
| 26 | Nineteen twenty-two was from the beginning an uneasy year for the Coalition . |
| 27 | And it was from the beginning the case in a more general Marxist tradition , which has been especially active and , it should be stressed , diverse in recent years . |
| 28 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 29 | The CNAA was from the beginning anxious to ensure progress towards greater democratic government in institutions , particularly , as we have seen , in the creation and proper functioning of academic boards . |
| 30 | I worked it out that it was since the beginning of the recession , since 1989 , that I 've been redundant . ’ |