Example sentences of "began [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 2 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 3 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 4 | Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory . |
| 5 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 6 | Germany also began during the first years of the twentieth century to make some patchy and sporadic provision of much the same kind for her trade interests abroad . |
| 7 | However , those in the stalls began after the seventh month to observe her condition , and she went unwillingly home . |
| 8 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 9 | Eventually the British Standards Institution became the official English editorial body ; the publication of the full English edition , which was long overdue , began with the fourth edition in 1943 . |
| 10 | Political uncertainty , after the Norse invasions which began in the ninth century , forced a need for protection for which services were given in exchange . |
| 11 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 12 | Occupation began in the second century , being represented by pebbled spreads associated with several poorly recorded timber buildings , one of which contained ovens and hearths . |
| 13 | In our experiments the secretory effect of cholera toxin began in the second hour after administration of the toxin . |
| 14 | Elton claims that the ‘ scientific , ordered , systematic study of history only really began in the 19th century ’ and he particularly mentions Namier and Maitland as two historians who ‘ brought a scientific and intellectual approach to the study of history ’ . |
| 15 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 16 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 17 | The original sin began in the first cabinet when treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was said to have misused a married woman and government funds . |
| 18 | The enormous relative growth of older age-groups in the twentieth century is primarily due to the decline of fertility which began in the nineteenth ( Chapters 6 and 13 ) . |
| 19 | The latter , a uniquely interesting people distinct from all their neighbours both physically and culturally , were driven out of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin by the Russo-Japanese territorial conflicts which began in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Control of local authority borrowing began in the nineteenth century when central government was suspicious of the new local authorities and their potential to borrow money they could not repay . |
| 21 | Federal Boiotia probably began in the sixth century ( there are Boiotarchs at Hdt. ix . |
| 22 | Shaft mining began in the fifteenth century , and by the Industrial Revolution mining was being done on a large scale . |
| 23 | This system , known as devşirme , began in the fifteenth century and died out in the late seventeenth century . |
| 24 | The house move necessitated my moving school , to Brackenbury in Hammersmith where I began in the third year . |
| 25 | New pupils began in the third form , and III in Roman numerals showed in worn black lettering on the door ahead of him . |
| 26 | European penetration of Sri Lanka began in the sixteenth century , when the Portuguese established control over some coastal areas . |
| 27 | Observatories go back many centuries , perhaps even to Stonehenge ; but modern observatories in the West began in the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | Though the massive reclamation of the eastern Fenlands began in the seventeenth century it was not entirely successful . |
| 29 | But , at the same time , the steepest decline in Dun and Bradstreet 's ‘ optimism index ’ since quarterly surveys began in the fourth quarter of 1987 points to a sharp slowdown in economic activity . |
| 30 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |