21.   Some auto industry analysts, citing production cuts and rising rebates together with the slower sales, said they saw the beginning of the end of the economic expansion.

22.   Some see the beginnings of a consumer backlash.

23.   Still, Japan has seen the beginnings of an economic recovery, broader distribution of U.S. cars on the islands and new U.S.-Japan servicing agreements.

24.   Their big break came when Elizabeth Saltzman, fashion director of Vanity Fair magazine, saw the beginnings of the new line.

25.   They think they see the beginnings of a sympathy vote, particularly among women.

26.   They do not know that they have just seen the beginnings of a bioterrorist attack.

27.   We are almost seeing the beginnings of a breakdown in the state if this were to happen in many places.

28.   We know that BSE rampaged through British cattle, and we are now seeing the beginnings of an outbreak of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people.

29.   We often only see their beginning.

30.   When the religious looks at Tel Aviv culture, at Batsheva, he sees the beginning of the end of the Third Commonwealth.