Example sentences of "began in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The will began in the usual way , with small bequests to several relatives of whom Theda had never heard , and a lump sum and pension for the Diggorys — at mention of which old Adam had again recourse to his handkerchief . |
| 2 | He began in the then Sales Department and has retained a special interest in the public house operations side of the business . |
| 3 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 4 | A new round of peace talks between the Sudanese government and the southern rebel movement began in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on May 26 . |
| 5 | The violence appears to been started by an offensive against the UDF by Zulu warlords which began in the early hours of Saturday morning . |
| 6 | The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today . |
| 7 | It is well known that the movement was part of a complex colonizing process which began in the early 1880s in the East End of London , whereby members of the upper classes lived among the poor , providing them with a variety of educational , recreational , and welfare services . |
| 8 | The huge expansion began in the early 1960s , when the federal government decided to change the whole character of higher education in Germany . |
| 9 | Interest in the UK began in the early 1960s when firms began to experiment with interactive graphics using mainframe computers . |
| 10 | Super raft racing began in the early seventies with the advent of the 100 Mile River Wye Raft Race which remains to this day the ultimate challenge . |
| 11 | Other farms that were once situated in the centre of the village have been displaced by extensive house building which began in the early 1960s and continues to the present day . |
| 12 | The sequence of events began in the early 1960s when Jack Hayden was the station foreman . |
| 13 | Serious hunting began in the early nineteenth century , when tiger shooting became an obsession with the maharajas and nabobs who quickly passed the mania on to the British officials and army officers . |
| 14 | The programme , which began in the early 1970s , aimed at helping students to reassess their own assumptions by giving them first-hand experience of the life and social conditions in which many children grow and develop . |
| 15 | Discussions about the allocation of the ‘ fourth channel ’ — the last available national off-air broadcasting channel for Britain — began in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | Mrs Whitehouse 's concern with the output of the major broadcasting companies began in the early 1960s and is still going strong today almost thirty years later . |
| 17 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 18 | The research was based on a comparison of three local areas in Edinburgh , one where gentrification began in the late 1960s , one where gentrification began in the early 1980s , and one modern suburb . |
| 19 | The threatened clampdown actually began in the early hours of March 27 , when Soviet troops seized at least 23 Lithuanian deserters who had taken refuge in two hospitals in Vilnius and another in Kaunas . |
| 20 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 21 | This underthrusting began in the Early Miocene and contributed to the doubling of crustal thickness ( up to 80 km in places ) and the impressive subsequent uplift of the Higher Himalayas . |
| 22 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 23 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |
| 24 | For The Northern Echo it began in the early 1960s when editor Harold Evans introduced a cuttings library which saw 200 stories a day being cut , pasted and stored under appropriate headings . |
| 25 | The comic book in the UK began in the Victorian era . |
| 26 | In fact , the fusion experimental programme was sporadic until 1988 : the main experimental fusion programme began in the latter part of that year . |
| 27 | As a response to Jamaica 's high level of debt , the government began in the latter part of 1990 the implementation of a new economic strategy based upon deregulation of major areas of the economy . |
| 28 | In fact this banal verse , which forms a part of the novel At Swim-Two-Birds , is a satire on the cult of imbecile proletarian writers that began in the thirties and later reached its apotheosis under Joan Littlewood . |
| 29 | It has taken Warren Ogden nearly 30 years to compile the information on these machines which began in the mid 1950s . |
| 30 | Faced with these problems , computer scientists began in the mid 1970s to experiment with using many processors in a single machine to work in parallel on a single problem . |