Example sentences of "[noun] began on the " in BNC.

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1 Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 .
2 In 1676 an arrangement was made with the widow of William Gape , a past Master of the Company , for plants to be transferred from her Westminster garden to Chelsea and work began on the building of a brick wall around the property .
3 Work began on the bridge in 1836 , with Brunel himself in charge , but money ran out after four years and the project was abandoned .
4 No sooner had this year 's tournament finished , than work began on the £10m octagonal shaped 14,000 seater stadium , which will have giant palm trees growing through the stairways to help maintain the distinctive flavour of South Florida .
5 Work began on the construction of the school in December and the first brick has already been laid .
6 In the last days of August demolition began work began on the house .
7 So almost overnight , Aarau decided on a major expansion scheme , and work began on the Laurenzenvorstadt .
8 After Wolsey 's surrender of Hampton Court to the king in 1525 , work began on the Cardinal 's College ( now Christ Church ) in Oxford , where Redman was joint master with John Lebons or Lubbyns and the carpenter Humphrey Coke .
9 Much work was done in the 1790s at the Royal Naval Hospital , Greenwich , and in 1810 work began on the pediment there , which was forty feet long , designed by Benjamin West [ q.v. ] and Joseph Panzetta , and made in Coade stone .
10 In 1886 , however , work began on the long-delayed City and Southwark subway , the beginning of a line that became the City and South London Railway , the world 's first underground electric railway .
11 On that date work began on the conversion of the existing manual Kardex file , containing the records of the Library 's periodicals holdings , into machine-readable format .
12 Since 1979 , when construction work began on the Colinton Bypass , the provision of an outer city bypass for Edinburgh by 1990 has been a key element of Lothian Regional Council 's transportation policy .
13 The LAN option was chosen , and work began on the Computing Upgrade Project , financed by a special grant from DAFS , in 1989 .
14 In 1954 work began on the deserted Das Island to build a base for personnel working on a mobile drilling platform in the Arabian Gulf .
15 The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 .
16 Work began on the reorganisation in August last year and electricians have begun preparing for the computer terminals .
17 And it was against this backcloth of public concern that the Spanish Civil War began on the 19 July 1936 .
18 For the Government the culminating crisis began on the morning of 11 August 1931 , when MacDonald arrived overnight from Lossiemouth .
19 The committee was divided over whether or not to proceed with the march but it agreed to send a delegation to Derry to consult the local people ; this meeting began on the evening of Friday 4 October and went on until 1 a.m. on Saturday .
20 The protests began on the final day ( March 5 ) with young lamas shouting slogans .
21 The troubles began on the morning of the match when Gavin Hastings , probably the best fullback in the world , pulled out of the team with a back injury .
22 Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama .
23 The conflict between Chilperic and his half-brothers began on the death of their father Chlothar I. More interestingly , Merovech 's bid for power followed his uncle 's murder ; similarly Gundovald , who had been more or less ignored when he first returned to Gaul in 582 , became a plausible candidate for the throne when Chilperic was killed .
24 Thus Rowthorne and Rowbotham joined the editorial board , and thus also a change began on the Dwarf which was significantly to affect the development of the underground , and ultimately prove its nemesis .
25 On the following morning , a service began on the muir , conducted by the Rev. Mr. Douglas , a minister who was with the Covenanters .
26 Since tables began on the current basis 22 years ago , Clerical Medical has appeared in this listing now fewer than 51 times out of 66 .
27 The strike began on the morning of Wednesday 15 May and within a week was bringing Ulster close to a standstill .
28 Then debate began on the document on the Church .
29 It was in this atmosphere of crisis that debate began on the pastoral office of bishops on 5 November .
30 The deluge began on the first day of September 1963 .
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