Example sentences of "have begin in [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1991 it had been announced that some 200 investigations into shootings by border guards would be undertaken ; a second trial of border guards had begun in December 1991 . |
| 2 | The investigation — into how illegal arms sales were made to Iran and the profits clandestinely diverted to support the contra rebels in Nicaragua — had begun in December 1986 . |
| 3 | Earlier in March the UK government had indicated that it might resume the forced repatriation of boat people from Hong Kong , which it had begun in December 1989 but suspended soon afterwards [ see pp. 37121-2 ] . |
| 4 | One immediate consequence was increased pressure on the Soviet Union to hasten the implementation of troop withdrawals from Eastern Europe , concerning which negotiations had begun in December 1989 [ see p. 37195 ] . |
| 5 | Controversy over the status of the Fleet had begun in January 1992 [ see p. 38732 ] . |
| 6 | The dispute had begun in April 1989 when Pittston announced that it intended to cut costs by withdrawing from the Association of Coalmine Operators , the body responsible for negotiating labour contracts with the UMW on an industry-wide basis and for providing health and pension benefits . |
| 7 | The trial , which had begun in April 1987 , was estimated to have cost $15,000,000 . |
| 8 | Those convicted , whose trial had begun in April 1990 [ see p. 37688 ] , were former executives of the state-owned Voest-Alpine AG and its subsidiaries — the Noricum ordnance and the Hirtenberger munitions factories . |
| 9 | This was followed in June by the successful completion of the Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , which had begun in September 1989 with the aim of locating and removing structural causes for the considerable US-Japanese trade imbalance [ see pp. 37376-77 ] . |
| 10 | The talks , which had begun in September 1990 with the objects of easing political and military tension on the Korean peninsula and of promoting greater links between the two states , had involved three meetings between delegations led by the premiers of the two countries , thereby representing the highest level of contact ever achieved by the two countries . |
| 11 | Peace talks had begun in Arusha on July 10 , following a preparatory meeting in Paris a month earlier , in an attempt to end the rebellion which had begun in October 1990 [ see pp. 37765-66 ; 38950 ; 38996 ] . |
| 12 | This work had begun in May 1979 , when the CHC , jointly with the Waltham Forest District Management Team , commissioned an independent consultant to assess the scope for merging Claybury and Goodmayes . |
| 13 | Negotiations on the agreement had begun in May 1988 . |
| 14 | A planned merger between two of the country 's largest commercial banks , Banco Español de Crédito ( Banesto ) and Banco Central , which would have had combined assets of $46,000 million , was cancelled in February 1989 , ending a process which had begun in May 1988 . |
| 15 | Controversy over who was entitled to vote in the referendum had begun in July 1991 , when Morocco had appeared to have retracted its previous acceptance of the 1974 census as a basis [ see also p. 38410 ] . |
| 16 | Opinion in Catholic parts of the Reich in particular was greatly influenced by the new wave of attacks on the position of the Church which had begun in spring 1941 and gathered momentum during the summer and autumn . |
| 17 | The war that had begun in August 1914 had thrown an intolerable burden upon the industry of the Russian Empire . |
| 18 | Inter-party discussions had begun in June 1991 [ see pp. 38300-01 ; 38356 ; 38738 ] but were adjourned in March [ see p. 38822 ] until after the April UK general election . |
| 19 | The activity of the National Liberation Front of Corsica ( FLNC ) was revived in early January after a truce which had begun in June 1988 [ see p. 36227 ] . |