Example sentences of "work 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 . |