Example sentences of "[noun sg] began on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Work began on the bridge in 1836 , with Brunel himself in charge , but money ran out after four years and the project was abandoned . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Work began on the construction of the school in December and the first brick has already been laid . |
| 5 | In the last days of August demolition began work began on the house . |
| 6 | So almost overnight , Aarau decided on a major expansion scheme , and work began on the Laurenzenvorstadt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The LAN option was chosen , and work began on the Computing Upgrade Project , financed by a special grant from DAFS , in 1989 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 15 | Work began on the reorganisation in August last year and electricians have begun preparing for the computer terminals . |
| 16 | And it was against this backcloth of public concern that the Spanish Civil War began on the 19 July 1936 . |
| 17 | For the Government the culminating crisis began on the morning of 11 August 1931 , when MacDonald arrived overnight from Lossiemouth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the following morning , a service began on the muir , conducted by the Rev. Mr. Douglas , a minister who was with the Covenanters . |
| 21 | The strike began on the morning of Wednesday 15 May and within a week was bringing Ulster close to a standstill . |
| 22 | Then debate began on the document on the Church . |
| 23 | It was in this atmosphere of crisis that debate began on the pastoral office of bishops on 5 November . |
| 24 | The deluge began on the first day of September 1963 . |
| 25 | Stewart 's chequered career began on the other side of the law in Sydney Australia where he was a police officer … he was even decorated for outstanding bravery in the course of duty . |
| 26 | It was not long before some researchers were also reporting dream recalls following other non-REM sleep awakenings , and a lively controversy began on the question of whether night-time dreaming is confined to REM sleep , or whether it may be continuous through all sleep stages . |
| 27 | On the instant , a fearful commotion began on the farther side . |
| 28 | It is true that Edward V 's one and only regnal year began on the day the previous sovereign expired , as did those of Henry VII and Henry VIII , Edward VI , Queens Jane , Mary I and Elizabeth I , James I , Charles I and James II . |
| 29 | Our quest for the Drus traverse began on the well-worn path from the station , our objective for the day the Charoupa refuge , magnificently situated at the top of the Charoupa rognon , in the awesome , rocky cwm below the south faces of the Drus and Aiguille Verte . |
| 30 | Although preliminary construction began on the French side soon after the ratification of the Treaty of Canterbury in July 1987 , the main Channel Tunnel construction did not start until January 1988 . |