Example sentences of "begin when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began when a respected local historian , Norman Scarfe , claimed in the East Anglia Daily Times that , in the rumour-filled summer of 1940 when Britain faced an imminent Nazi invasion , a War Office file on the evacuation of the civilian population from the hamlet was mysteriously sealed until the next century . |
| 2 | The affair took a sinister turn four months after the investigation began when a young American banker , due to appear in court on fraud charges connected with offshore banking transactions , died in mysterious circumstances . |
| 3 | It all began when a woman threatened to tie herself to a willow tree . |
| 4 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 5 | Her problems began when a chemical drum in the back of her van sprang a leak , and filled the van with fumes . |
| 6 | It began when a mare , belonging to Marianne Gothberg , was cut round the vagina . |
| 7 | The story began when a young man attended a party in Mournacre Hill , a suburb of Leicester . |
| 8 | The drama began when a neighbour was awakened by the dead man 's wife . |
| 9 | Trouble began when a mistaken claim by a junior Minister persuaded many people to stop buying eggs . |
| 10 | On the Pembrokeshire border lies Efailwen , a small village where the Rebecca riots began when a toll gate was burned in 1839 . |
| 11 | The Oxford saga began when a local reporter investigating landlords who appeared to be cheating the DHSS was taken off the case . |
| 12 | Drama began when a masked actor was introduced to represent the god ( in the sixth century , from which time ) the Dionysiac experience of visionary transformation into satyrs was represented artistically . |
| 13 | The WWF/Exxon Chemical relationship began when a group of trainee managers approached WWF to ask whether they could become directly involved with a WWF project . |
| 14 | On May 1 a Croat was shot dead in the mainly Serbian village of Brsadin ( near Vukovar ) , and on May 2 shooting began when a group of Croatian policemen entered Borovo Selo near Vukovar to look for three missing colleagues . |
| 15 | It began when a lorry carrying drums of paint burst a tyre and went out of control , careering through the central reservation . |
| 16 | It all began when a group of musicians from Presteigne called Marengo went to Prague and met Czech fiddle player Honza . |
| 17 | A trip chain is a sequence of trips beginning when a resident leaves home , and ending when they next return home . |
| 18 | The riots had begun when a crowd of around 60,000 , mostly of the " better sort of tradespeople " , were brought together by the Pro-testant Association on St George 's Fields to pressure parliament into rescinding the very limited measures of Catholic relief which had been enacted in 1788 . |
| 19 | It all begins when a gloomy figure blindly stumbles forth — on to a stage which could n't possibly be any more black — clutching a minor forest of fuming joss sticks . |