Preposition: of

• semester: There can be hundreds of students without anywhere to live at the beginning of a semester.

• season: Heavy equipment is used for the salmon fishing in the beginning of the season.

• 1990s: The illusion lasted until the beginning of the 1990s.

• chapter: The beginning of the chapter on the civilization of ancient Egypt is an illustration.

• year: All pupils entering the Senior School at the beginning of the Fourth Year follow the GCSE ICT Short Course.

Converse of object

• mark: The " % % " marks the beginning of the rules.

• signal: Many agree that this shift toward neo-liberal economics and away from Keynesianism signaled the beginning of the sometimes rather nebulous term ' globalization ' .

• celebrate: They are a way to welcome new family members and celebrate a new beginning for the couple.

• represent: Indonesia regards these understandings as representing the beginnings of a universal culture on human rights that makes international cooperation on the issue feasible.

• miss: I actually don't know for sure because I missed the beginning of the show.

• witness: You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history.

Preposition: at

• p.m.: The company will broadcast its earnings conference call overthe Internet that day beginning at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Adjective modifier

• humble: We started from very humble beginnings with a youth worship event in our town.

• auspicious: Since that auspicious beginning, Lúnasa has become one of the most sought-after bands on the international Irish music scene.

• inauspicious: Four years after this inauspicious beginning, the once obscure army officer and junior cabinet minister again set foot on French soil.

• unpromising: After an unpromising beginning and parliamentary threats to revoke its charter, the company became hugely profitable.

• very: At the very beginning of the surgery, the operation went terribly wrong.

• tentative: With gentle guidance, our tentative beginnings drawn out, examined, put together, improved.

Preposition: in

• 1970s: This guide covers unique and representative designs from the beginning in the early 1970s until now.