Example sentences of "began as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own interest in meat began as a general curiosity concerning our seemingly confused attitudes to this seminal substance , and a wish to sort the complex ideas into some sort of pattern . |
| 2 | Like all the best British institutions , Beaverbrooks the Jewellers began as a small family business . |
| 3 | She tightened her lips against the chuckle that began as a small sound deep in her throat , but her amusement would not be contained and soon she was laughing loudly and helplessly . |
| 4 | What began as a logical extension of growing aristocratic authority became by 1800 a byword for jobbery , corruption and intimidation.6 Until the partial reforms of 1832 , Sussex as a whole sent 24 representatives to the House of Commons . |
| 5 | The riot began as a peaceful protest march over the killing , but violence erupted after police prevented the marchers from approaching the precinct house of the officer who had fired the fatal shots . |
| 6 | Its the culmination of a career that began as a long shot . |
| 7 | One report described observers in Baghdad as surprised that what was expected to be Iran 's final offensive , taking in the Shatt island of Bovarian , began as a frontal assault against earthworks and water barriers east of Basrah where Iraq 's defences were at their most formidable . |
| 8 | It began as a joint initiative between purchaser and provider with 15 users of mental health services and their carers . |
| 9 | It began as a homebased outfit called Lentils For Dubrovnik , but ten lorryloads later it 's become a highly sophisticated collection and distribution network … and it 's threatening to engulf the organisation . |
| 10 | It is now A423 , which began as a prehistoric ridgeway along the watershed between the Cherwell and the Evenlode . |
| 11 | So what began as a simple strategy to sell denim trews to impressionable , pliable teenage minds became an inter-agency conceptual war as the adpeople convinced themselves that late-Eighties Britain was in the grip of a nostalgia boom . |
| 12 | The style began as a secret combat training method for forming the Chinese rebels into a fighting force during the Opium wars of the 19th century . |
| 13 | In Estreito da Calheta is the Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça which began as a sixteenth-century chapel , although the present church dates from 1791 to 1793 . |
| 14 | What began as a compelling rejection of a straitjacketing orthodoxy made its criticism in terms of a materialist demand that the socio-political locale of culture be addressed , in the face of an institutionalised aversion to any such examination conducted under a self-serving misrepresentation of the autonomy of art . |
| 15 | It began as a little shop selling butter , milk and eggs in London 's Drury Lane in 1869 run by John and Mary Sainsbury . |
| 16 | The Merovingian dynasty began as a vigorous force that firmly developed the Franks into a national entity , and made many conquests that extended Frankish territory . |
| 17 | What began as a blind struggle to stabilize and expand the power of a small group of competitive monarchs in Western Europe threatened the rest of the principalities . |
| 18 | The Englishman 's cup of char began as a Chinese word for tea , but came west via north India 's chai . |
| 19 | Robertson began as a social work assistant in Bristol before working in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire . |
| 20 | BELOW This portrait sketch on bleedproof marker paper began as a loose drawing in cool grey 01 — just visible around the unfinished hand . |
| 21 | Both are science fiction works , although ‘ Fahrenheit 451 ’ is a novel and ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ’ began as a short story and was later expanded into a novel . |
| 22 | The group , which began as a four-way partnership in 1979 , is on the verge of lifting its stake in Carat , Europe 's largest independent media buying company , as part of its continuing metamorphosis . |
| 23 | What began as a two-part idyll or pastoral has now grown into a full-length epic . |
| 24 | Outside the walled area , a house built on a disused road ( p. 94 ) began as an aisled structure but later had a corridor and two wings added to it . |
| 25 | Communist influence in the ILP began to increase rapidly , largely owing to the work of the Revolutionary Policy Committee which began as an independent minority working within the ILP but eventually merged into the Communist Party . |
| 26 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 27 | However , what began as an eccentric country pastime has been transformed by trained winemakers like Stephen Skelton in Tenterden , Karl-Heinz Jobner , formerly at Lamberhurst but now based in Germany , Hans Schalfer at Denbies and John Worontschak at Thames Valley . |
| 28 | In Sacramento he began as an unworldly ideologue , but went on to become a pragmatist . |
| 29 | And then that general principle of Equity , which began as the mere application of moral sense to particular cases , develops into more and more definite rules . |