Example sentences of "be at the start " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they 're at the start line . |
| 2 | Wherever the game is played , and the possibility of alternate years in Manchester and Sydney will be discussed in the coming weeks , one team will always go into the match having just become champions , while the other will be at the start of their first defence . |
| 3 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 4 | Er you see when I was , this would just be at the start of the First World War , oh damn I have n't put a switch in have I ? |
| 5 | Being at the start of a slimming programme , rather than at a midway stage . |
| 6 | Their observations that nuclear fusion may be possible inside metals at room temperature were also only preliminary , as were those of Jones : they had 25 per cent heat imbalance at best , were at the start of their real research and estimated that a full three years would be needed to do what was necessary . |
| 7 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |
| 8 | You should have found in question 14 that the answer is which means that the same number of sweets are Present now were at the start . |
| 9 | But we also need the broad generalizations that help show whether we are closer to meeting the basic needs of all the world 's people than we were at the start of the 1970s . |
| 10 | ‘ It is all a bit overwhelming and we are more frightened now than we were at the start because we know so much more about her condition . |
| 11 | Erm they were at the start they were at the finish and both days in between . |
| 12 | Again Moloney offers such an analysis of the younger DUP activists : ‘ … men like Robinson , Allister and Kane who are at the start of political careers know that the negative politics practised for so long by their leader would deny them the office and power that could be theirs . ’ |
| 13 | By 10am the organisers are at the start , where the sacks of coal are delivered by lorry . |
| 14 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 15 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
| 16 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 17 | Thereafter it rose again to about £91,000 per annum in the last five years of the reign , little more than it had been at the start . |
| 18 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |
| 19 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 20 | The Boy does not have that rather hoarse sound that Falla wanted , but sounds merely like a well-trained choirboy. master peter sounds neither servile , which he is at the start , nor terrified , which he should be at the end . |
| 21 | The best time to start exercising is at the start rather than at the end of a dieting campaign . |
| 22 | In fact I 'd say we 're worse off than what we was at the start of it . |
| 23 | They range from the impressive Eric Jones-Evans and Alan Tagg collections to a small but exquisite ( and previously unknown ) portrait of Ellen Terry , painted when this legendary actress was at the start of her career in Bristol and presented to the Collection by the artist 's granddaughter . |
| 24 | His most endearing was how loving he was at the start . |
| 25 | This still means that the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes is now 50% higher than it was at the start of 1991 . |
| 26 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 27 | On the basis of the information above , calculate what the brothers ' wealth was at the start and end of the six months and what profit had been made . |
| 28 | Goes back to what it was at the start . |
| 29 | If the cursor was at the start of a line , it moves to the end of the previous line ( right edge of the text window ) . |
| 30 | Moreover , capacity utilization was considerably lower when the previous upswing had begun than it was at the start of the mini-boom of 1972–3 . |