Example sentences of "began [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the ladies had withdrawn from the dinner-table , a conversation began about the Highlanders and their linen . |
| 2 | Even after radio reporting of results began between the wars , the ‘ pink'uns ’ and ‘ green'uns ’ kept their readers . |
| 3 | 1 Samuel 4 began with the Israelites being defeated in battle and with their elders talking of God fighting on the enemy side . |
| 4 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 5 | Created by John way back in 1910 , it began with the Girls grouped in sets of four dressed as ponies and imitating the animals ' movements . |
| 6 | I began with the horse-riders and their representatives . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Animal life began with the invertebrates and then ascended through the sequence of vertebrate classes in the order : fish , reptiles and mammals . |
| 9 | He made converts , and prepared the way for the real planning that began with the bombs of 1940–41 ’ ( Wright , 1982 , p. 9 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They began with the words : ‘ I agree that the terms of the late Mr Farrington 's will be varied … |
| 12 | This writ , issued in 1286 from Paris , where the king then was , began with the words ‘ Act circumspectly ’ — or in Latin , Circumspecte agatis . |
| 13 | The third and best of the Rabbitte family trilogy that began with The Commitments is an essential read for anyone with fond memories of Italia ‘ 90 . |
| 14 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 15 | Cullen is a Morse veteran , the cast is to some extent interchangeable , and the story is re-jigged so that instead of opening in Paris — as in the book — it began with the Fellows ' Winter Feast at St Mark 's College , with intrigue and skulduggery at high table . |
| 16 | Inner London bureaux which began under the auspices of the Family Welfare Association were not accustomed to volunteers at all as they were staffed by paid workers and many even have a negative attitude towards them . |
| 17 | It could be that the Christianising of the Middle Angles began under the auspices of the eastern Angles in Anna 's reign . |
| 18 | One is in the Delta ; the other is in Heliopolis , now a suburb of Cairo , but not even a cynic could believe the world began in the suburbs . |
| 19 | Monasticism began in the deserts of Egypt . |
| 20 | When Cranham Community Church started , we began in the gospels , taking the uncomfortable passages with the more familiar , always trying to ask the questions : what did this passage mean for its original listeners , and now what does it mean for us today ? |
| 21 | This important development , which began in the towns , was fostered by the mercantile class and the rise of a money economy . |
| 22 | The development of the V-bombers ' supersonic successor , the AVRO 730 , and of Blue Steel MkII with a range of 750 nautical miles , began in the mid-1950s . |
| 23 | His career in music began in the mid-1960s , editing and writing the pop page of his local Essex newspaper . |
| 24 | When discussions on reorganisation began in the mid-1960s both these considerations were present . |
| 25 | The development of the industrial estates by the County Council began in the mid-1960s with an advance factory for Wilkinson Sword . |
| 26 | The bidding process began in the polytechnics in 1989 , coming into operation in 1990 , but the system will not be used in the universities until 1991/92 . |
| 27 | With all the themes previously outlined in mind , it is time to make a brief chronological survey of that process , which began in the mists of time , and has made inevitable the problems and conflicts described in the remaining chapters of this book . |
| 28 | Its headwaters began in the swamps south of what is now Orlando and flowed into Lake Okeechobee at the centre of the system . |
| 29 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 30 | A TENTATIVE economic recovery began in the shops last month , when retail sales showed their first year-on-year rise since last September and their strongest increase since May 1992 , the month after the last general election , the Confederation of British Industry claimed yesterday . |