Example sentences of "began [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 2 | And then raindrops began to fall in the sand all around him . |
| 3 | After the first oil shock in 1973 , demand for steel began to fall in the industrial countries . |
| 4 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 5 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 6 | Inevitably , our friendship overlapped the boundaries of work and we began to meet in the evenings . |
| 7 | Steve grew up in Seattle and began climbing in the Cascades Range . |
| 8 | Then he began to tumble in the air and reality took over . |
| 9 | Back in London , her name began appearing in the gossip columns . |
| 10 | Articles with titles like ‘ The New Opposition ’ and ‘ Power Returns to the Lords ’ began appearing in the newspapers . |
| 11 | However , GKR began to flourish in the early 1980s , not so much in financial services as across the board in industry . |
| 12 | These began to flourish in the early 1970s , and by 1975 there were 185 . |
| 13 | Farming began to flourish in the Lothian plains once the bogs had been cleared and fords or bridges provided over the network of rivers and streams . |
| 14 | But just as the security net began to tighten in the grounds of the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh yesterday a group of Japanese tourists made an unscheduled appearance . |
| 15 | This shows that after a freshening in the early 1970s , the salinity ( and temperature ) began to increase in the early 1980s , although not to the same level as in 1970 . |
| 16 | State-sponsored housing began to reach further down the social scale than previously and house building under subsidy began to increase in the later 1920s . |
| 17 | When process investigations began to increase in the 1960s it was not realized exactly how difficult they would prove to be . |
| 18 | In shape , such apertures were roughly square , although circular openings began to appear in the early nineteenth century and are often a conspicuous feature of the brick-built Victorian estate barns of Cheshire . |
| 19 | Candidates for these positions began to appear in the heavens . |
| 20 | Colourful velvets for the outer case began to appear in the early nineteenth century . |
| 21 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 22 | Mr De Benedetti presented himself voluntarily to Milan magistrates on May 16th after rumours began to appear in the Italian press that his company had paid bribes to win contracts , notably with Italy 's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications . |
| 23 | Rumours began to appear in the press concerning differences between the American State and War departments over policy regarding Japan . |
| 24 | Other executive agents began to appear in the course of the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | Soon , and no doubt inevitably , some more substantial specks of cloud began to appear in the sky . |
| 26 | His poetry began to appear in the Marlburian in 1912 , influenced by John Masefield [ q.v. ] and by the Wiltshire downs , with their irresistible evocation of the past . |
| 27 | But the project was dropped and reports began to appear in the Western press in the early 1970s of Soviet use of Indian port facilities , especially the naval base at Vishakapatna . |
| 28 | LASMO Oilers ' captain , Peter Coote from graphics , explained : ‘ The problem was that bubbles began to appear in the ice — one of the refrigerant pipes had leaked or burst . |
| 29 | The platform may have been left , although there is no indication that it was used until Stretford Bridge began to appear in the timetable as a request stop in 1890 . |
| 30 | Shortly thereafter cracks began to appear in the house both internally and externally and the purchaser had to have the house underpinned at a cost of £1,444 and had obtained estimates of between £1,500 and 12,000 for repairs to the superstructure . |