Example sentences of "occur [prep] the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dr Stevenson has put it : " English crowds appear to have killed no one deliberately in the various food disturbances which occurred from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth . " |
| 2 | This cosmic ‘ year ’ was divided into four periods , each of 3,000 years , Zarathustra 's life occurring at the beginning of the final period . |
| 3 | This change occurred at the beginning of the Paleozoic era starting with the Cambrian period , about 570 to 700 million years ago . |
| 4 | Reaction time was faster when the target word occurred at the beginning of a clause , than when it was at the end of a clause . |
| 5 | For , as we shall see , it is a remarkable and essential transformation , one which occurred at the beginning of human culture but which , in some subsequent cultures — possibly even in the modern world — could undergo retransformation back again into what it originally had been — an external tyranny . |
| 6 | This lambast , which occurs at the beginning of the novel , is not just another Jacobsonian account of the too easy reverence paid to writers of ‘ magic realism ’ . |
| 7 | The following example occurs at the beginning of a chapter : |
| 8 | The sensation of falling typically occurs at the beginning of the night , during Stage I sleep . |
| 9 | In preposed theme , the gloss tag occurs at the beginning of the clause , in postposed theme , it occurs at the end of the clause . |
| 10 | It is possible to see Halliday 's view of theme — as whatever comes in initial position in the clause — as a reflection of ( a ) the nature of English as a language with relatively fixed word order , and ( b ) his study of Chinese , this being a language with a special category of topic which always occurs at the beginning of the clause . |
| 11 | A study of the Tamil phoneme /l/ would reveal that it never occurs at the beginning of a word . |
| 12 | If it occurs at the beginning of a committee meeting where something is going to be pushed through and the agenda manipulated it can provoke the reaction , " … hypocrites " . |
| 13 | Another point to remember is that when weak-form words whose spelling begins with ‘ h ’ ( e.g. ‘ her ’ , ‘ have ’ ) occur at the beginning of a sentence , the pronunciation is with initial h , even though this is usually omitted in other contexts . |