Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] had begin " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the democratic parties that had begun to form in Russia and other republics after the removal in February 1990 of the CPSU 's constitutional monopoly on the ‘ leading and guiding role ’ in society , were small and weak . |
| 2 | During Edward 's short reign , England had grown much closer to continental Protestantism and had begun to embrace the nascent Protestant internationalism being fostered by Calvin at Geneva . |
| 3 | In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 4 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 5 | His legs had buckled and knocked , a comic effect , and he 'd gone down too soon for his partner to see the ugly roundel that had begun to form on the white tennis shirt . |
| 6 | The cold cut through him , summoned by the winds that had begun their journey on the far plains of Siberia and the Ural mountains and the great Kirgiz steppe . |
| 7 | But it was only accelerating a process of contraction that had begun decades earlier . |
| 8 | But ten million people had died in a campaign that had begun as a summer frolic in 1914 and now ended in a shower of November rain . |
| 9 | It exposed the moral dangers of the mechanistic philosophy that had begun with Bacon and had fuelled humankind 's drive for dominance over Nature . |
| 10 | Horne retired in 1911 , the last serving member of the team which had mapped the south of Scotland and had begun on the Highlands . |
| 11 | In the very short space of ten seasons Mains played a hundred games for Otago and had begun a steady succession of matches in All Black trials . |
| 12 | Betty had heard the car stop in the lane and had begun to frighten herself even before she heard someone slip in the stream and swear , long before the knock on the door . |
| 13 | Joseph had devoured the contents of the book avidly during the long Pacific crossing and had begun reading it again after they left Hong Kong . |
| 14 | and the legislation which anchored it to statutory process , had secured a firmer foothold and had begun to flirt uncertainly with wider issues . |
| 15 | After a week of fighting , the war that had begun with a thunderous high-tech blitzkrieg in the skies over Baghdad had not yet delivered visible proof of victory . |
| 16 | The war that had begun in August 1914 had thrown an intolerable burden upon the industry of the Russian Empire . |
| 17 | Then reality closed its cold hand around her and she remembered her captivity as one seamless procession of days that had begun just like this . |
| 18 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 19 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 20 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 21 | The dissident AVC wing , although it had decided to abandon the class struggle , still opposed the AVC majority who had accepted the government 's offer of amnesty and had begun demobilization in February 1989 to join mainstream politics . |
| 22 | He had led the team that developed the Soviet Union 's atomic bomb and had begun seeking peaceful applications of nuclear power . |
| 23 | A day that had begun with the parade affirmation had to terminate in the same style . |
| 24 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 25 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 26 | Despite continuing reservations concerning " character " issues — throughout the campaign Clinton had been assailed over various aspects of his private life and judgment — there was evidence throughout April that many senior Democrats had accepted the inevitability of his nomination and had begun closing ranks around him in preparation for the campaign against Bush . |
| 27 | She watched the swallows that had begun to fly over the hill in the last of the light ; they skimmed close , almost round her feet . |
| 28 | The crisis of 1965 was a continuation of the argument that had begun in 1961 with the Fouchet Plan and that had resurfaced over the application by Britain to join the EEC . |
| 29 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 30 | Meantime the wonderful enchanted season that had begun with the opening of the show in April went on . |