Example sentences of "[Wh det] began [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 2 | The Fly in the Ointment brings to a conclusion the trilogy of novels by Alice Thomas Ellis which began with The Clothes in the Wardrobe and The Skeleton in the Cupboard . |
| 3 | An impromptu meeting was held in the foyer , which began with the crowd singing ‘ We shall not be moved ’ . |
| 4 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | The nature of that existence has been partly influenced by the actions of those millions of people who have lived during the period which began with the dawn of civilisation , and extends into modern times . |
| 6 | These agreements are the latest in a series of steps which began with the visit made by Gu Xiu Lian , Minister of the Chinese Chemical Industry , to Montecatini 's Italian headquarters . |
| 7 | Afternoon at their Spitalfields home , which began with the obligatory tea ceremony , stretches into evening . |
| 8 | Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot . |
| 9 | The crisis within the Community which began with the abortive Fouchet Plan deepened with de Gaulle 's veto of British membership in 1963 . |
| 10 | During the review of broadcasting which began with the Peacock Committee , one proposal for Channel Four has been under constant discussion . |
| 11 | This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean . |
| 12 | Expo '92 is scheduled to exceed all records for events of this kind , which began with the great exhibition in London in 1851 . |
| 13 | San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) . |
| 14 | In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil . |
| 15 | The ecumenical movement has reversed three centuries of division which began with the failure of the Savoy Conference in 1661 and the imposition of the Act of Uniformity , Today , Holy Communion is celebrated more frequently and with a set liturgy , often in an ‘ Anglican ’ way ; set prayers are common and sometimes take a responsory form ; the increasing use of a lectionary means that the choice of readings depends less upon the whim of the preacher and more upon an ordered scheme . |
| 16 | Last week the Wagner Development Group put to rest that work which began with the 1988 Wagner report with the fourth and last conference jointly organised by NISW and Community Care ( News , page 4 ) , and the coincidental publication of the third Wagner volume Positive Answers ( HMSO , £6.50 ) . |
| 17 | Fear of being ousted from Edward 's entourage by the king 's Poitevin half-brothers perhaps gave him a personal interest in the political upheaval of 1258 , which began with the half-brothers ' expulsion from England . |
| 18 | Although this book was published before many of the systems texts , and therefore is largely non-quantitative , it was refreshing in that it was a brief treatment , which began with the energy budget of the atmosphere and proceeded to include all aspects of the environmental system including the sea in the geosystem , a topic frequently ignored by physical geographers in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | The tiny animal is the result of more than five generations of selective breeding — which began with the six-foot tall , 2,000 pound Indo-Brazilian zebu . |
| 20 | The new agreement , due to expire in September 1992 , extended by a further two years the free trade which began with the suspension of ICO quotas [ see p. 36836 ] . |
| 21 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
| 22 | The soldiers ' departure marked the end of Russia 's nine-year and 50-day occupation which began with the airlift of troops into Afghanistan at Christmas , 1979 . |
| 23 | Her detailed report , which began with the call she had taken reporting the accident , included her call to the county ambulance , accounts from other men on the shop-floor , the foreman 's version of what happened , first aid given , and on-the-spot treatment that had been administered by the factory medical team . |
| 24 | The demonstrations , which began with the death of a former Communist Party leader on 15 April , 1989 , ended with an army assault on Tiananmen Square on 4 June that killed hundreds of people . |
| 25 | THE Border Golfers ' Association , which began with the amalgamation of seven clubs in 1893 and went on to play a major role in the development of the Scottish Golf Union , will launch a season of centenary celebrations at Kelso on Sunday . |
| 26 | Later one of the gringos in the office told me that in the book of depositions , which began at the end of January , they were already ( in the second week of April ) at page 152 , with three entries per double page . |
| 27 | Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems Inc started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor by the fourth quarter of 1996 . |
| 28 | Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor part by the fourth quarter of 1996 . |
| 29 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 30 | The growth of European Community funded farming has increased losses which began at the beginning of the century . |