Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [art] beginning of the " in BNC.

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2 If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s .
3 Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 50 ) mentions the theory that the temples ( though he treats them as palaces ) at Knossos and Phaistos were founded by foreign dynasts who invaded Crete at the beginning of the Middle Minoan period ; according to this view , urbanization occurred in Crete as a result of the arrival of already-urbanized conquerors .
4 Life in Parma at the beginning of the school year seemed normal apart from the Fascist propaganda in the papers , but one began to sense that the members of the Party were becoming even more arrogant and domineering than before , and that it was increasingly important for people with different ideas to keep them to themselves and never to discuss politics .
5 Typically , the first action he describes was a mistake : the bombing of Freiburg at the beginning of the war by a squadron of the Luftwaffe believing itself to be over Dijon .
6 By way of a contrast to the more usual content found between these covers , let me take you to Georgian England at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century .
7 And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected .
8 In Scotland , the universities had always had strong scientific and philosophical traditions ; but in England at the beginning of the century neither of the two universities was a centre of scientific research .
9 From what he told me I know for a fact the IRA did n't use Mick during their bombing campaign in England at the beginning of the war . ’
10 ‘ We signed him and when he came back from Brazil at the beginning of the next season , he explained that he had changed his name , dropped the da Silva .
11 It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age .
12 Of course , I think if , if , if Freud were here , he would defend himself , by saying I was quite open about my prejudice against Wilson at the beginning of the book , as reminds us , Freud says quite clearly , how he felt about all this .
13 They stay close to the male-oriented tradition , particularly at higher academic levels , and assume , like Henlé at the beginning of the chapter , that their gender need not affect their career .
14 The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London .
15 Reaumur went to live in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century and his initial contact with the academie came through an interest in mathematics .
16 Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River .
17 Of the latter , one was dedicated to King Henry II of England in a prologue taken almost word for word from Bede 's preface to Ceolwulf at the beginning of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People .
18 John the Baptist when he saw Jesus at the beginning of the earthly ministry of Jesus , he says behold the lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world and on him was laid all of our sin all of our debt .
19 The French speak a language derived from that small group of speakers of Latin who conquered Gaul at the beginning of the first millennium AD , although they suppose they are descended more from the Gauls than the Romans .
20 The extent of local government reorganization and managerial reform in the UK at the beginning of the 1970s makes it very tempting to argue that a structural change was taking place .
21 The organisers have accordingly taken the opportunity in the last few rooms to explore a second although only tenuously related theme , that of the possible influence of Leonardo and Milanese art on Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century .
22 These kings chose Angkor at the beginning of the ninth century for their residence and remained there until 1431 , when they were defeated by the Thais .
23 Earlier research produced a comprehensive description of medical student selection in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 1980s .
24 New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason .
25 All this though was some way from any quantitative expression of conservation of ‘ energy ’ — a term first used in something like the modern scientific sense by Thomas Young at the beginning of the century .
26 The first traces seem to have appeared in Peru at the beginning of the second millennium B.C. By the birth of Christ a relatively complex metallurgy , including rich goldsmithery , was being practised in Panama and Costa Rica .
27 The argument runs that in the absence of their predators , performance is better and that when such predators , be they animal , fungus or other pathogen , catch up with the crops or evolve to attack them , disaster follows , as occurred in the coffee harvests of Malaya at the beginning of the century and in the banana-growing countries of Central and northern South America before that .
28 The documentary impulse was inherent in the contract filmmakers made with the MOI at the beginning of the war , but it could absorb the poetic romanticism or Powell-Pressburger , the sophisticated visual and verbal montages produced by Humphrey Jennings , another documentarist with surrealist roots , in such 1941 pictures as Words for Battle and Listen to Britain , as well as films in the realist tradition .
29 The framework for an Asian Free Trade Area ( AFTA ) , and formation of a " non-institutional " discussion forum to be called the East Asian Economic Caucus ( EAEC ) , were widely seen as diluting the proposals put forward by Malaysia at the beginning of the year [ see p. 38101 ] for an East Asian Economic Grouping ( EAEG ) .
30 In Britain at the beginning of the century the naval dockyards were among the largest industrial concerns ; and there Marc Brunel first introduced high technology in the form of machinery for making pulley-blocks for the rigging of warships .
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