Example sentences of "[art] trial began " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 2 | The prosecution was in a bit of a quandary ; the main witness , the teenage post-boy , had been inconsiderate enough to die on the day the trial began . |
| 3 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 4 | Although WG and AY had failed to come to an agreement before the trial began , a settlement was reached after more than two weeks of opening arguments . |
| 5 | The motion was granted and the trial began . |
| 6 | ‘ I was in the middle of tea when the trial began . ’ |
| 7 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 8 | I should mention that I had bought a few items of clothing that morning , before the trial began . |
| 9 | The trial began on July 20 , 1989 , of 16 men and four women accused of taking over the La Tablada barracks on Jan. 23 , 1989 , when about 40 people were killed and over 60 wounded [ see pp. 36394 ; 36613 ] . |
| 10 | The trial began on Oct. 25 of Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Pereira , in the Amazonian town of Xapuri . |
| 11 | The trial began on Sept. 25 of Imam Yasin Abu Bakr , the leader of the coup attempt . |
| 12 | Former Panamanian diplomat Ricardo Bilonick , a crucial witness who was allegedly Noriega 's go-between with Colombia 's Medellín drugs cartel , and who was arrested only two weeks before the trial began , pleaded guilty to a relatively minor racketeering charge on Aug. 29 without having to face more serious drug-trafficking charges . |
| 13 | The trial began amid controversy when the presiding judge , Stanley M. Weisberg , chose to move the venue to Ventura County , an almost exclusively white area inhabited by a disproportionately large number of police officers . |
| 14 | When the trial began in late February 1710 , huge crowds gathered to escort the doctor back and forth from his lodgings to Westminster Hall , shouting that they wished " God would Bless him and send him a happy deliverance " . |
| 15 | But the newspaper was saddled with the legal costs of the trial , which it could have avoided by " paying in " the lowest denomination coin of the realm before the trial began . |
| 16 | Daniel Gardiner , from Stroud in Gloucestershire , who was driven to court in a prison bus , and Simon James , from Minchinhampton near Stroud , pleaded not guilty to his murder when the trial began at Winchester on Tuesday . |
| 17 | Kim Brockwell was found stabbed to death outside her flat in the city , but when the trial began today the charge was reduced to manslaughter . |
| 18 | Between 200 and 250 alleged collaborators — mainly Jordanians of Palestinian origin , Iraqis and stateless Arabs — had appeared in court since the trials began on May 19 [ see p. 38212 ] . |