Example sentences of "[adv] began [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , Lister 's discovery of the importance of antisepsis made surgery , which up till that time had been a hazardous technique , a safe procedure , and with the development of anaesthesia , surgery suddenly began to enjoy great popularity as a panacea for many ills . |
| 2 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 3 | Gandhi only began to undertake serious fasts — that is , fasts where there was a danger to his life , as opposed to brief fasts for purposes of spiritual discipline or penance — after he had established a reputation for sanctity and a large following based to some extent on that reputation . |
| 4 | West Venture was acquired in March 1988 but only began to make significant sales this year . |
| 5 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 6 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 7 | So impressive was the damage , and the mess , that willing Goblins soon began to take this form of warfare quite seriously . |
| 8 | Brenda soon began to have lovely rides on her bike . |
| 9 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 10 | By 1938 , the District achieved a balanced financial position and thereafter began to accumulate small credit balances . |
| 11 | In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories , essays , and journalism . |
| 12 | The concept of prevention also began to embrace wider concerns for the well-being of all deprived children , not only those at immediate risk of entry into care ( Leissner , 1967 ; Runnicles , 1968 ) . |
| 13 | In the first months of Kennedy 's presidency the United States not only undertook a substantial arms build up , but also began to float new ideas in strategic doctrine , most notably Maxwell Taylor 's theory of flexible response . |
| 14 | During 1987 a women 's household production network ( in fact inspired and organized by a foreign worker ) also began to produce pickled vegetables for retail in grocery stores in the West Bank , to displace Israeli produce . |
| 15 | I also began to understand general relativity and to make progress with my work . |
| 16 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 17 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 18 | This studied the texts by the techniques of literary and historical analysis , attempted to separate out historical material from legend or poetry , and even began to raise sensitive problems of authorship — as , for instance , whether all the first five books of the Old Testament were in fact written by Moses . |
| 19 | The death of the Emperor Henry VI in September 1197 , leaving a son of two , came too late for the ageing Celestine to reap the benefit , although he immediately began to re-assert papal claims to the Patrimony , the duchy , the March and Tuscany , now fallen into imperial hands . |
| 20 | He immediately began making anonymous donations to charity — but stayed as an agent with Kleeneze . |
| 21 | He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town . |
| 22 | You say in your book that in June 1959 you had lunch at Claridge 's with Basil Taylor and then began collecting British art . |
| 23 | At first I observed , then began to take some lessons . |
| 24 | After Cromwell , new squires , successful tradesmen , farmers and impoverished Cavaliers who had made good marriages then began to build new houses . |
| 25 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 26 | His attitude was justified when , during 1743 , the French government again began to give active encouragement to the Old Pretender . |