Example sentences of "which began [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject also expanded greatly in scope from that of the study of leys , and one theme which began to be explored was that of folklore . |
| 2 | These grass-roots organizations which began to be formed immediately after February represent , in their view , the aspiration of the Russian proletariat to take command of the productive process . |
| 3 | But the question which began to be asked more often after 1962 than before was : were the costs worth it ? |
| 4 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 5 | Certainly only in the next batch of cantos ( post-1930 ) , which began with extended excerpts from the founding fathers of the Republic , would the scale of magnitude of the poem become apparent , also its topicality and its Americanness . |
| 6 | The latest talks , which began with a meeting planned between the flight attendants union and management on Wednesday to discuss a new labour contract are not expected to produce firm proposals and the next bid for United Airlines may not get off the ground until well into 1990 . |
| 7 | The Fly in the Ointment brings to a conclusion the trilogy of novels by Alice Thomas Ellis which began with The Clothes in the Wardrobe and The Skeleton in the Cupboard . |
| 8 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 9 | Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies . |
| 10 | Three Burgundians therefore met three Scots in a tournament at Stirling presided over by James II , which began with all the appropriate pomp and ceremony , and then acquired all the merits of a punch-up , which the Burgundians duly won three-nil . |
| 11 | An impromptu meeting was held in the foyer , which began with the crowd singing ‘ We shall not be moved ’ . |
| 12 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | Their guests , Michael and Helen , took an hour and forty minutes to eat the repast , which began with pasta dressed in sour cream and lumpfish roe and incorporated mature Tilseter cheese ( before the pudding ) and a selection of hand-crafted miniature biscuits ( with the coffee ) bought from the Viennese coffee-house on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 14 | Central 's Village Earth series , which began with in the footsteps of the Incas ( ITV , 7 March ) , bids fair to be an exception . |
| 15 | The nature of that existence has been partly influenced by the actions of those millions of people who have lived during the period which began with the dawn of civilisation , and extends into modern times . |
| 16 | These agreements are the latest in a series of steps which began with the visit made by Gu Xiu Lian , Minister of the Chinese Chemical Industry , to Montecatini 's Italian headquarters . |
| 17 | In our case , by starting two small congregations which began with fewer than forty , the total number of those attending on Sunday mornings grew from around 200 to around 400 as a result of this strategy . |
| 18 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 19 | Afternoon at their Spitalfields home , which began with the obligatory tea ceremony , stretches into evening . |
| 20 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |
| 21 | But after he collected a CBE he declined to be drawn into detailed discussion about the new BBC show which began with a healthy 13 million viewers three weeks ago , but is now believed to have dropped to around eight million and has been panned by the critics . |
| 22 | Lise is not a trained cook , but has a wealth of valuable experience which began with helping her mother in a small hotel in Copenhagen . |
| 23 | Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot . |
| 24 | But it can also be recognised more widely in the Romantic movement which began with Rousseau , and was the predominant influence in literature and culture generally from the latter part of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth . |
| 25 | The crisis within the Community which began with the abortive Fouchet Plan deepened with de Gaulle 's veto of British membership in 1963 . |
| 26 | During the review of broadcasting which began with the Peacock Committee , one proposal for Channel Four has been under constant discussion . |
| 27 | This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean . |
| 28 | The Papua New Guinea Women in Media ( PNGWIM ) has been formed as a result of the seminar , which began with a challenge from keynote speaker Dr Rose Kekedo , a former government official now working in the private sector . |
| 29 | As jewels and goldsmiths ' work from the Thurn und Taxis family go under the hammer this month at Sotheby 's Geneva , other , even more historically evocative works of art from the collection are on show in the Belgian Archives Géneral to celebrate nearly 500 years of the world 's oldest postal service , founded by the Thurn und Taxis , which began with a link between the imperial residence of the Habsburgs in Innsbruck and the court of Margaret of York in Malines , Belgium . |
| 30 | Expo '92 is scheduled to exceed all records for events of this kind , which began with the great exhibition in London in 1851 . |