Example sentences of "began for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would not wish to underestimate the capabilities of my fellow countrymen for self-deception ; but it is difficult to believe that there can be further instalments of the saga which began for the people of Great Britain with the successful revolt of the American colonies . |
| 2 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 3 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 4 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 5 | England withdrew from Fifa in 1928 , as discussions began for the organisation of the first World Cup competition , and remained disdainfully on the sidelines until 1950 , when England 's ‘ superiority ’ complex was quickly dissipated by a 1–0 defeat in a pool match against the United States . |
| 6 | In the south , recruiting began for the Irish National Volunteers . |
| 7 | A new life began for the and for many . |
| 8 | The U.K. event is only part of the Glenlivet European Trophy , which began for the other European branches of Seagram in 1988 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 11 | Ironically , the day began for the prince and princess in the grand Presidential Palace in the Korean capital Seoul , with President Roh through a translator telling them : ‘ You are a very beautiful couple . ’ |