Example sentences of "started [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , according to Escoffier himself a Paris factory , the Maison Fontaine took up the canned tomato industry , the whole department of the Vaucluse started to specialise in the same business , and it was only after the events recorded by him that Italy and America introduced their own versions of canned tomatoes . |
| 2 | Birds nested in the porch and in the guttering , and a bold jackdaw started to build in the cold unused chimney . |
| 3 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
| 4 | The first wave , mainly from villages in Lebanon and Syria , started to arrive in the 1880s . |
| 5 | This situation only started to change in the late 19th century as more excavators tried to understand what they were finding . |
| 6 | Consciousness of the weakening of the sense of community , especially at local level , started to reawaken in the 1970s . |
| 7 | The Thing started to speak in the low , slow tones of human speech . |