Sentence examples for having a beginning from inspiring English sources
One purpose of the council was to resolve disagreements arising from within the Church of Alexandria over the nature of the Son in his relationship to the Father: in particular, whether the Son had been 'begotten' by the Father from his own being, with no beginning, or rather, begotten in time, or created out of nothing, therefore having a beginning.
"We always talked about having a beginning, a middle and an end," Mr. Stanley said.
When the flow of time is held to be not recurrent but one-way, it can be conceived of as having a beginning and perhaps an end.
There was also the question of whether a video that would be shown in a gallery, rather than a theatre, could even be conceived of as having a beginning, a middle, and an end.
To be mortal is to be capable of dying (as opposed to going on and on and on), and therefore of having a beginning, middle and end, which is what sentences, narratives and arguments have: you start here and end there with the completed thought or story or conclusion (quod erat demonstrandum).
Christie [39] talks of the prototypical classroom lesson having a beginning, middle and end pattern.
