Example sentences of "began at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Government 's caning began at a conference of 230 headmasters from the country 's top public schools .
2 Her career in geography began at a time when , in Britain , this field was still among the less fully organized of the sciences .
3 His reign thus began at a moment when , as a result of defeat and financial stress , the difficulties which now faced the monarchy were beginning to be all too visible .
4 The trail began at a street in Cardiff .
5 It began at the Altovar print works when a pipe carrying oils and chemicals at 180 degrees celsius leaked .
6 All through trains ceased on the GC in the early hours of 4th September 1966 , when signal boxes were locked out of use until demolition began at the turn of the year .
7 The LTQ training programme began at the top of the organization and ‘ cascaded ’ downwards with each manager training his or her immediate subordinates in the process .
8 Unlike the Prince , she had had no love affairs when their friendship began at the beginning of that year .
9 Beckett 's Molloy expresses it , for example , when he remarks , ‘ I began at the beginning , like an old ballocks , can you imagine that ? ’
10 ‘ The university term began at the beginning of the month . ’
11 But , happily , recolonisation of East Anglia from the continent began at the beginning of this century .
12 The growth of European Community funded farming has increased losses which began at the beginning of the century .
13 The sand began at the edge of the property .
14 The protests began at the law courts when two men convicted of distributing anti-government leaflets each received the maximum five-year sentence .
15 It all began when Wade was swimming with dolphins , imitating their movement in an undulation that began at the head and rippled along his body to his fins .
16 My employment with CBC began at the salary of $150. per month which was very acceptable , and I was assigned to the newly created post as Talks Producer .
17 The series of events began at the CastleCourt shopping complex at teatime last night when a woman , with her one-year-old child , was putting her shopping in the back of her Ford Granada .
18 Computer image acquisition began at the onset of the injection .
19 Follow up began at the start of therapy and was continued for 52 weeks .
20 The hostility between Scotland and England began at the end of the thirteenth century with the Scottish succession crisis caused by the death of Alexander III in 1286 and of his only direct heir , his granddaughter Margaret Maid of Norway , in 1290 .
21 Later one of the gringos in the office told me that in the book of depositions , which began at the end of January , they were already ( in the second week of April ) at page 152 , with three entries per double page .
22 The restructuring of broadcasting in Nigeria began at the end of 1978 .
23 US deliveries of the Sparcbook 1 began at the end of January , and according to Tadpole chairman , Robert Gilkes , there are already some 160 corporate customers , one of which has taken 40 of them .
24 A further recount began at the end of May .
25 Increased Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel that began at the end of 1989 placed a major obstacle in the way of improved relations between Israel and the Soviet Union .
26 The romance began at the end of last year when our quiet and somewhat serious technical manager started dating a lively , gregarious member of the personnel team .
27 Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century .
28 I was only a boy then , and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn , at Black Hill Cove .
29 Interest in knitting began at the age of nine and resulted in many short stripy scarves !
30 John 's formal education began at the age of six , when he was sent to the school of a Mr Worsley in Hertford .
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