Example sentences of "[noun] began [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 2 | The deluge began on the first day of September 1963 . |
| 3 | The original sin began in the first cabinet when treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was said to have misused a married woman and government funds . |
| 4 | For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party . |
| 5 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 6 | 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 . |