| Beginning | Count |
|---|---|
| At the same time, | 344 |
| At the end of | 267 |
| As part of the | 194 |
| By the end of | 152 |
| As a result of | 123 |
| As a result, the | 122 |
| A spokesman for the | 114 |
| Anyone with information about | 113 |
| At the time of | 109 |
| A lot of people | 103 |
| Analysts polled by Thomson | 91 |
| Anyone with information is | 86 |
| A spokeswoman for the | 64 |
| At the same time | 59 |
| According to the report, | 58 |
| A member of the | 57 |
| But he said the | 56 |
| Earlier in the day, | 53 |
| By the time the | 52 |
| A lot of the | 49 |
| Burial will be in | 49 |
| Click here to read | 48 |
| Analysts surveyed by Thomson | 45 |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - | 44 |
| At the start of | 44 |
| But there is no | 43 |
| Do you think the | 42 |
| Anyone with information on | 41 |
| At the beginning of | 40 |
| But he said he | 38 |
We find the most frequent sentence beginnings consisting of three words. See section 4.3.1.1 for more details.
If the corpus is poorly balanced in the sense that it contains many similar sentences, we will find well formed but unexpected sentence beginnings. This should be noticed for a forthcoming revision of the corpus.
4.3.1.1 Most Frequent Sentence Beginnings I
4.3.1.2 Most Frequent Sentence Beginnings II
4.3.1.3 Most Frequent Sentence Beginnings III
4.3.1.1 Most Frequent Sentence Endings I
4.3.1.2 Most Frequent Sentence Endings II
4.3.1.3 Most Frequent Sentence Endings III
4.3.1.4 Most Frequent Sentence Endings IV