Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |
| 2 | They need a sympathetic response , that is understandable and starts at the beginning . |
| 3 | Brompton Road , SW3 Long Acre , WC2 Sale starts at the beginning of January . |
| 4 | The second part starts at the beginning of Term 5 , before the first teaching practice ; it continues for four further weeks at the beginning of term 6 in the same teaching practice school . |
| 5 | In other words , what happens at the beginning of the story states why the relationships between two or more characters lead to confrontations which continue onwards to a climax and finally draw the ballet to a suitable conclusion . |
| 6 | if this happens at the beginning of an utterance , a left-to-right strategy may consume a great amount of time examining interpretations which look good initially , but can not be completed . |
| 7 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 8 | The assessment process , it says at the beginning of its report , |
| 9 | I mean if the communists actually saying this is a force , I mean he , he says at the beginning |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The following example occurs at the beginning of a chapter : |
| 12 | The sensation of falling typically occurs at the beginning of the night , during Stage I sleep . |
| 13 | In preposed theme , the gloss tag occurs at the beginning of the clause , in postposed theme , it occurs at the end of the clause . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A study of the Tamil phoneme /l/ would reveal that it never occurs at the beginning of a word . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |
| 18 | Owner-occupiers tend to delay childbearing because they face heavy housing costs at the beginning of their marriage . |
| 19 | Though Connie knows that individual vision is personal , and does n't have to compromise truth ( the suicide she witnesses at the beginning is described twice , quickly and slowly , close and distant ) , the book itself is finally dependent on recognition . |
| 20 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
| 21 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 22 | Biggar Gasworks Museum opens at the beginning of June . |
| 23 | The Soviet fixation-on Western-sponsored alliance formation in the Middle East induced great scepticism in the USSR towards regional plans for security coordination developed among the Gulf states at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 24 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 25 | Bachilor 's licence appears at the beginning of a number of works . |
| 26 | But it is still dominated by the attitude Parlee advises at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 27 | Under s179 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or after 1 October 1993 , Target is again treated as disposing of assets acquired intra-group in the preceding six years , but the gain or loss accrues at the beginning of the accounting period in which Target leaves the vendor group ( see s179 TCGA and s89 Finance Act 1993 ) . |
| 28 | It is sensible for the term to be stated to be from and including a specific date to avoid the uncertainty caused by the general law that a term which is to commence " from " a certain date in fact commences at the beginning of the following day , with the term lasting during the whole anniversary of the day from which it is granted , unless there is some contra-indication in the lease . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not anything like as easy as one imagines at the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ and when you 've actually qualified it 's quite frightening when you 're confronted by an animal with some mysterious disease and an anxious client standing by . |
| 30 | Right that 's how , that 's how the speaks at the beginning of it he goes oi oi oi oi |