Example sentences of "[vb past] begin in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The turning point for him and the Soviet Union came in nineteen eighty five , when he succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as the General Secretary ; within one year , he 'd begun in earnest his reform programme , familiarising the world as well as his fellow Soviet citizens with words such as peristroika and glasnost . |
| 2 | It was the culmination of the US strategic conceptualisation which had begin in 1981 , as President Reagan came to power . |
| 3 | The wave of anti-government protests which had begun in late April when riot police beat a student protester to death , continued into June , but was met with a tougher response by the authorities following an incident on June 3 when the Prime Minister was assaulted by student dissidents . |
| 4 | The first consignment of 32 Mirage jets from Australia arrived in Pakistan on Nov.29 , 1990 , following negotiations which had begun in late 1988 . |
| 5 | On July 4 the South Korean Foreign Affairs Minister Lee Sang Ock completed an official visit to Russia , the Ukraine and Kazakhstan which had begun in late June . |
| 6 | On the academic side , General Studies was introduced to the Sixth Form " A " Level curriculum , and the School bade farewell to Mr. H. D. Smith , whose career had begun in 1919 under Daniels . |
| 7 | Three of the four employees were formally accused of fraud and forgery , and Fuji admitted to having suffered losses of 27,100 million yen ( about $200 million ) as a result of the scheme which had begun in 1987 . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 9 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 10 | Increased numbers of women were already working in manufactur-ing industry , and by the mid-1950s the process of ‘ upskilling ’ had begun in other sectors of the labour market . |
| 11 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 12 | Nearly 50,000 striking mineworkers from the Black Sea town of Zonguldak , who had begun in early January a protest march on foot to Ankara , called off the march on Jan. 9 in response to a call from Semsi Denizer , leader of the largest miners union , Maden-Is . |
| 13 | These protests were added to a series of crippling miners ' strikes which had begun in early March . |
| 14 | Wilson therefore regularized a practice he had begun in 1964 when outsiders such as Professors Nicholas Kaldor and Robert Neild had been recruited into the Treasury , a practice which Heath had followed on a smallish scale . |
| 15 | The process of revision had begun in 1986 . |
| 16 | The poem with that title was one of four published under the pseudonym Sagitta in 1905 in the Berlin gay journal Der Eigene , which had begun in 1896 as an anarchist journal in the direction of Max Stirner ( reflected in the title : der Eigene equals self-owner , in the meaning given that word by Stirner ) , but from 1898 was openly homosexual . |
| 17 | It had begun in 1878 as a school chapel built on a narrow restricted site in Beamsley Street , Manningham , by Canon Scruton of St Patrick 's , to serve the workers at Manningham Mills , the largest silk spinning and weaving mill in Europe . |
| 18 | Planning had begun in 1857 and originally envisaged the enlarging and improving of the existing 1832 church on the opposite side of the street . |
| 19 | His work with the pro-life movement had begun in 1966 with Sir David Steel 's Private Members Bill to legalise abortions . |
| 20 | The crisis of 1965 was a continuation of the argument that had begun in 1961 with the Fouchet Plan and that had resurfaced over the application by Britain to join the EEC . |
| 21 | Similarly , Miss Robertson , of T. & A. Constable , who had begun in 1894 , was earning 6s a year later , and 13s in 1900 , at age 20 . |
| 22 | Accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to 1986 and cited a paper written in 1985 ; for their part Fleischmann and Pons insisted that their effort had begun in 1985 , all of which added to the perception that the fusion claims were important and the patents worth fighting for . |
| 23 | By the end of the eighteenth century the American colonies had been lost and the French Revolution , which had begun in 1789 , was at its height . |
| 24 | Early experiments had begun in 1788 , and by 1812 nine steamboats carried passengers on the Clyde , followed by links between London and Gravesend and between Newcastle and Shields . |
| 25 | Her step , which had begun in unaccustomed buoyancy , began to shrink ; soon , she was trudging round and round with dispirited tread , and her hanging head became so weary that her neighbour , Elisabetta , holding her by the arm , dug her elbow into Rosalba 's ribs to bring her to . |
| 26 | This had begun in 1958 when a Boundary Commission had been appointed to consider piecemeal structural reform in various parts of the country . |
| 27 | The first was Blue Boar , a glide missile with television guidance and a range of only 25 nautical miles , on which preliminary work had begun in 1951 . |
| 28 | It welcomed the " Slessor talks " ( which had begun in 1951 ) as a model for non-military as well as defence issues — evidently hoping that greater frankness in informal meetings would satisfy British aspirations . |
| 29 | The sale of Tongan passports , for US$10,000 or more , which had begun in 1984 , was declared illegal by parliament in 1988 . |
| 30 | He had begun in 1833 to work also on 10 plates for Gould 's Monograph of Toucans , a single volume of 34 plates on a single species similar to Lear 's own original Parrot publication , and which was to finish in the same year , 1835 , as the Birds of Europe . |