noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
auspicious start/beginning
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Saccani’s excellent recording is an auspicious start to what promises to be a distinguished musical career.
from beginning to end
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Michael Jordon led the race from beginning to end.
signal the start/beginning/end of sth
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the lengthening days that signal the end of winter
the beginning of the century
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Coco Chanel was born in France at the beginning of the century.
the beginning of...epoch
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the beginning of a new epoch
the beginning/end of an era
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The closure of the last coal mine marked the end of an era in Wales.
the beginning/end of the recession
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The Chancellor is confident that we shall see the end of the recession in the next few months.
the beginning/end/middle of the month
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You’ll receive your wages at the end of the month.
the beginning/start of a chapter
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His character is introduced at the beginning of the first chapter.
the beginning/start of term
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The beginning of term was only two days away.
the beginning/start of the year
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They moved here at the beginning of last year.
the very beginning
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It is clear from the very beginning of the play that he is a weak and unpopular ruler.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
humble
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From humble beginnings sales have quadrupled and are set for further high growth in the next three years.
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He had no one to envy, for life had been good to him, especially considering his humble beginnings .
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From such apparently humble beginnings a competent operator can produce very professional documents indeed.
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He went on to speak at length of how he, Fakhru, had started out from just such humble beginnings .
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To his humble beginnings in Up Hatherely and his school days.
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From such humble beginnings in a remote Lincolnshire village he was, however, destined to make his impression on the world.
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From those humble beginnings , Oxfam has grown into Britain's largest aid agency with an income of nearly 70 million pounds.
just
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But even then the war would be only just beginning .
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And the nightmare was only just beginning .
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But they were only just beginning .
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Your student days at Nottingham may be over but your links with the University are just beginning .
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Clearly our troubles are just beginning .
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The party's only just beginning .
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I am sure they are just beginning .
new
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For men, returning home after years away from their wives and children, a new beginning had to be made.
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There were so many new beginnings .
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Again there was a new beginning for me in September.
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Spare us the cliched drivel of how spring training mirrors life's new beginnings .
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Its director, David Briar has seen how the farmers have made a new beginning .
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It seemed to promise a new beginning , almost a new birth.
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There may be a feeling of having wasted life, with less hope of a new beginning .
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She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning .
only
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We are only beginning to realize the significance of stone.
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But even then the war would be only just beginning .
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But these dead letters troubled him, physically even, because they were only beginnings .
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The real debate is only beginning .
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The finishing time of 8 o'clock came and went, and they were only beginning .
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He revealed that the poet's connection with and knowledge of the primitive were only beginnings and not ends in themselves.
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Athens' troubles were only beginning .
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But it was only beginning ....
small
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From that small beginning over 3,300 churches and 650,000 members have grown, grouped into Associations and co-ordinated at State level.
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Their teams were chosen by the national selectors. Small beginnings All that changed, though, a dozen years ago.
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It was in that kind of environment that the Takeover Panel started its life from small beginnings and with a light touch.
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For this reason production cooperatives must be encouraged to grow from small beginnings over a period of time with sensitive support.
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From very small beginnings , by 1990 about 1,500 plants employed almost half a million workers producing a great variety of goods.
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From small beginnings in the eighteenth century it prospered in the depression after 1814.
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Thus it was a small but important beginning .
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From these small beginnings it has grown into something large.
very
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Decide from the very beginning that your aim is to use the target language as much as possible in the sessions.
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He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandisement from the very beginning of his reign.
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Let's start at the very beginning .
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This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning .
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Rachel, Herbert Varley's wife, had been helping since the very beginning .
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This had been on the cards from the very beginning .
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Indeed, this room represents the very beginning of the Rococo in Prague.
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Joan's been involved in disabled sport from its very beginning , at the Paraplegic Games at Stoke Mandeville in 1948.
■ VERB
mark
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This date was adopted by various countries as marking the beginning of the year.
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The slight improvements in the eighteenth century are important because they mark the beginning of the downward trend.
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It marked the beginning of the London Stock Exchange and an international trading boom for Britain.
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Vienne marked the beginning of the papacy's long exile in Avignon.
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However, 1983 also marked the beginning of severe destabilization.
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It is this decision which is taken to mark the beginning of the Hundred Years War.
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Puberty Puberty marks the biological beginning of adult life.
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It marked the beginning of Richard's association with Aquitaine.
signal
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Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call.
start
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Let's start at the very beginning .
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In order to start at the logical beginning I went with the default selection, Title.
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I wanted to start at the beginning .
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Even the King had to start learning at the beginning , didn't he?
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Listen, let me start at the beginning .
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Neglect of the educational needs of people starts at the very beginning .
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We plan to carry out a borehole survey starting during hte week beginning 26 April 1993.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in at the beginning/start (of sth)
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But Effie Bawn was in at the start.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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School children are taught that stories should have a beginning , a middle and an end.
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The beginning of the movie is very violent.
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The author tells us who the killer is at the very beginning of the novel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From the beginning it was decided that the Group should be entirely independent of Aldus.
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It was the beginning of the end.
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Joan's been involved in disabled sport from its very beginning , at the Paraplegic Games at Stoke Mandeville in 1948.
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That was how we'd set it up from the beginning .