Example sentences of "it began [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It began two weeks ago with revelations about the tax arrangements of Mr Birt , who was employed as a freelance consultant via his own firm in the £140,000-a-year job .
2 If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another .
3 Virgin 's determined to fight , on Thursday it began legal action here in the United States .
4 The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago .
5 This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago .
6 It began this year when Dad made those wooden cut-out figures , the snowman and the presents .
7 When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name .
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