Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] begun with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Church and secular press is anything to go by , a period of intense lobbying has begun with the various groups and interests within the Church of England backing their preferred candidates , or perhaps as significant , blacking others . |
| 2 | This investment programme has begun with the installation of a new wort production facility . |
| 3 | The Royal Institution had begun with an abortive attempt to train artisans in elementary science ; mechanics ' institutes provided lectures for what seems to have been chiefly a membership from the lower middle class . |
| 4 | The miners ' strike action had begun with patchily supported one-day strikes in the Donbass , Vorkuta and Karaganda coalfields on March 1 , and in the Kuzbass coalfield on March 4 . |
| 5 | The second full week of the election campaign has begun with Labour concentrating its firepower on the issue of unemployment . |
| 6 | No marriage had begun with a more definite understanding of what each required of the other . |
| 7 | After Brunel 's death , and in more prosperous times , work was recommenced on a modified design , as a tribute to the great man whose career as an independent engineer had begun with this project , and the bridge was finally opened to traffic in 1864 . |
| 8 | Iraq had previously claimed that the war had begun with Iranian bombardments of Iraqi territory on Sept. 4 , 1980 . |
| 9 | THE privatisation of the Russian health service has begun with an agreement under which Hospital Corporation International will take over the management of Moscow 's Granovskovo ( formerly Kremlin ) Hospital . |
| 10 | And new hope — ‘ utopian expectations ’ according to one report — arose again following the announcements on 16 June that the long-awaited retaliation had begun with the firing of the first VI missiles on London and parts of southern England . |
| 11 | The decade had begun with the consolidation of the polytechnics and the transfer to the CNAA , with varying degrees of difficulty , of the external degrees of the University of London . |
| 12 | The decade had begun with the CNAA not only on the brink of some of the expansive changes we have discussed , but also in increasingly strong cross-currents of debate about validation and relationships . |
| 13 | The Washington military parade had begun with a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate 378 US war dead . |
| 14 | On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] . |
| 15 | So it was — as Steve Gould put it — that Charles Lyell " managed to convince future generations of geologists that their science had begun with him " . |
| 16 | Just as Quexos 's Law required , his story had begun with a trio : himself , John Furie Zacharias , and between them , Judith . |
| 17 | The division had begun with her . |
| 18 | The Jewish civil year still begins at this time , but since the exodus from Egypt the Jewish ecclesiastical year has begun with the month Nisan at the spring equinox . |
| 19 | The weekend had begun with a briefing from the Major and from a purported Russian spy seeking to defect to the west and who , meanwhile , was staying in a safe house . |
| 20 | Mass production had begun with the installation by Henry Ford of the moving production line at his Highland Park plant . |