Sentence examples for start of the opening from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA 8.45pm BST A flypast at the start of the Opening Ceremony.

Temperatures were in the high 40s at the start of the opening match, featuring Sergio García and Thongchai Jaidee.

The start of the opening round was delayed two hours while crews cleaned up debris left behind by Hurricane Isabel.

He placed no accent at the start of the opening note, Mr. Kaplan observes, so why play one?

Photograph: Franck Fife /AFP/GettyImages liveblog 8.14pm BST London Mayor Boris Johnson and Prime Minister David Cameron anxiously await the start of the opening ceremony.

Expectation was so high you could detect a slight wobble at the start of the opening piece, Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un faune.

"Olympic Games are a sports festival embracing human diversity in great unity," Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee president, said in a pointed speech denouncing discrimination at the start of the Sochi opening ceremony.

At the other, there is a great deal of musical and lyrical underlining of Skepta's commitment to the grime scene, a lot of it placed at the start of the album: the opening tracks are a thrillingly unreconstructed splurge of choppy rhythms, low-rent electronics and pummelling bass.

And in February, two days before the start of the season-opening Daytona 500, Busch was suspended from Nascar indefinitely.

The crash did not delay the start of the season-opening Daytona 500 on Sunday, won by Jimmie Johnson, with the pole-sitter Danica Patrick finishing eighth.

(A fair number of campaigns start during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, but typically far more open during the Summer Games. The reason? Bigger ratings and buzz for the warm-weather Olympics).