Example sentences of "[pron] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they were going with their at the beginning of the year up for register and they 're catching up on it now . |
| 2 | A lion which at the beginning of the book seems as though it might just be an escaped animal from a nearby zoo turns out to be the great Lion of Strength . |
| 3 | The Military Household was responsible for overseeing the personal safety of the sovereigns , which at the beginning was entrusted to the Guides , a cavalry regiment rigged out in green and gold , numbering 1,000 , whose Colonel was Prince Joachim Murat . |
| 4 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 5 | Even if Lauda had been James 's only opponent , there was no way in which at the beginning of the season James could foresee the possibility of a championship . |
| 6 | Otherwise you may find yourself later , as you sweep along on the actual business of writing , gradually drifting into producing quite another sort of book than the one you set out to write and in consequence disappointing readers ' expectations which at the beginning you had gone to trouble to arouse . |
| 7 | Traditionally pioneers in agriculture , these were the families which at the beginning of the nineteenth century concluded that the making of good cheese need not be confined to the high alpine dairies as was then generally accepted , but could be practised in the rich pasturelands of the Mittelland . |
| 8 | By the 1870s heating was done by Bunsen burners rather than furnaces ; and a laboratory which at the beginning of the century had been as good as any was now ‘ a mere makeshift ’ or a ‘ noble relic ’ . |
| 9 | Of course , it is an idealisation ; an engaging picture of a system of manufacture which at the beginning of the next century was still being described as " highly favourable to the paternal , filial , and fraternal happiness — and to the cultivation of good moral and civil habits — the sources of public tranquillity " . |
| 10 | This bias was no doubt at least partially a reflection of the haphazard organization of policing in Britain itself at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Most notable in the first category have been six veterans of the Romanian Communist Party who at the beginning of the year addressed an open letter of defiance to President Ceausescu , telling him that ‘ the very idea of socialism for which we have fought is discredited by your policies ’ . |
| 12 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 13 | President Cristiani , who at the beginning of February flew to New York for meetings with UN representatives , agreed to the meeting but requested that while Pérez de Cuéllar could be present he should not participate . |
| 14 | They included a group of guerrillas , ultimately numbering 46 , who had occupied the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador since Aug. 20 and who at the beginning of October had sought political asylum in the Mexican embassy . |
| 15 | I I did say to you at the beginning do you think er men hate women ? |
| 16 | I should have told you at the beginning . |
| 17 | It is too late at the appeal stage to think about getting evidence which could have helped you at the beginning . |
| 18 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
| 19 | But you 'll naturally have more stock wo n't you at the beginning of the year . |
| 20 | So when your managers speak to you at the beginning of a er of your Monday morning meeting to say Gerald how much business have you got landed for next week you can say with conviction , two , two definite cases . |
| 21 | although no doubt they are doing the best they can for you Mr , erm , but I mean that 's why , that 's what I was putting to you at the beginning . |
| 22 | So anything that has n't been fired will be may be fired by the end of next week so it 'll be ready for you at the beginning of next term . |
| 23 | According to an announcement on July 16 , 1990 , two diplomats at the Czechoslovak embassy in The Hague had been expelled for espionage , one at the beginning of the year and the other in June . |
| 24 | Through its lexical meaning of a movement from point A to point B , to allows one to represent two positions of the infinitive event 's spatial support in time — one before , and one at the beginning of the infinitive 's event — which correspond to the two representations of person — extra- and intra-infinitival — involved in any use of the infinitive . |
| 25 | See what I 'm saying is ask a nice open question an easy one at the beginning that you know most people are bound to understand you get a lot of participation and then start building it up . |
| 26 | And take away the one at the beginning of May |
| 27 | Dr. Briant had said , when they taught her how to handle him at the beginning , ‘ He must never be coerced — coaxed — to do anything . |
| 28 | As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning . |
| 29 | I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone . |
| 30 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |