Example sentences of "be at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others may find the part time or flexible hours the main incentive , or be at the beginning or end of a working life . |
| 2 | Yet is this really so — could European dominion , and the subsequent dominion of America , really be at the beginning of a decline ? |
| 3 | It should be at the beginning of September . |
| 4 | ‘ & yet I would fain be at the Beginning of my Willows growing . |
| 5 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |
| 6 | The header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file . |
| 7 | The module header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file . |
| 8 | So the first question is , where do you imagine the poet to be at the beginning of the poem . |
| 9 | DEF must be at the beginning of the line . |
| 10 | there 's two files at the end which I thought maybe ought to be at the beginning . |
| 11 | A two-thirds majority will be necessary to bring the new set-up into being at the beginning of the 1994-95 season , but last night a Premier Division chairman claimed to know of three others from the top 12 who would , along with his club , vote against the proposal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 18 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 19 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 20 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
| 21 | Mr Nixon said : ‘ We are at the beginning of our investigations . ’ |
| 22 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 23 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 24 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 25 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 26 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 27 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 28 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 29 | Her only chance to escape had been at the beginning , when Miguel had loomed above her as she lay in the garden . |
| 30 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |