1.   At only seventeen, Lonny already had the beginnings of a beer gut.

2.   I think I have the beginnings of a cold.

3.   School children are taught that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end.

4.   Schoolchildren are taught that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end.

5.   The elephant not only has its beginning in a single cell, a fertilized egg.

6.   Science is not something new but had its beginnings before recorded history when humans first discovered reoccurring relationships around them.

7.   After all, you do have the beginnings of a small library...

8.   THE TUBWELL Row corner where Whessoe had its beginnings is probably where the famous Crown Inn stood.

9.   By the eighteen forties, you just had the beginning of home dressmaking.

10.   And so I have a beginning, a middle and an end.