Example sentences of "[Wh det] begin [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 .
2 ANNE GIBSON is the sole Scottish flag bearer at the All England Championships which begin at Wembley today .
3 This primary process of ageing , known as senescence , is simply the biological changes which begin as growth and development end .
4 Attendance at the seminars , which begin in April 1992 , is by invitation only .
5 Jewel and Esk Valley College has a variety of machine knitting courses which begin in August , so hurry to enrol .
6 His one- day helicopter tours , which begin from Battersea Heliport , include the ‘ Luncheon ’ tour — flying via Parham to Firl Place for lunch ( £995 per person ) ; the ‘ Spencer ’ tour — lunch at Althorp , tea at Sudeley Castle , Broadway ( £1,590 per person ) ; and the ‘ Ragley ’ tour — lunch at Ragley Hall , tea at Stanford Hall ( £1,980 per person ) .
7 Their guests , Michael and Helen , took an hour and forty minutes to eat the repast , which began with pasta dressed in sour cream and lumpfish roe and incorporated mature Tilseter cheese ( before the pudding ) and a selection of hand-crafted miniature biscuits ( with the coffee ) bought from the Viennese coffee-house on the other side of the railway bridge .
8 But it can also be recognised more widely in the Romantic movement which began with Rousseau , and was the predominant influence in literature and culture generally from the latter part of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth .
9 And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived .
10 His treatment of the " Alliterative Revival " is in some ways reminiscent of earlier treatments which argue that later alliterative writing in English reflects not so much a continuation of OE principles ( which language-change would in any case have made unlikely ) , but a re-invention from a tradition of alliterative prose-writing which began with AElfric .
11 Having few nationalized industries , the US emphasis was immediately on deregulation , which began with airlines in 1978 .
12 Serbia became an independent kingdom in 1882 , after a struggle which began with Karadjordje 's revolt in 1804 .
13 The industrial revolution , which began with machinery for cotton textile production , should therefore be understood , in part , as an exercise in import-substitution ( Chaudhuri 1978 ; Mukerji 1983 : 210–42 ) .
14 But first let us look back briefly at the events from 1945 to 1956 that provided the prologue to the post-imperial era which began at Suez .
15 Eventually , if the train was on time , their journey which began at Paddington at 9 a.m. ended at Camborne Station at 9 p.m .
16 This will was completed in time for the sale period which began on Boxing Day .
17 A three-day general strike which began on Sept. 26 was reported to have left three people dead and 400 detained .
18 During a visit to the Soviet Union which began on Sept. 10 and incorporated attendance at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) human rights session in Moscow [ see p. 38458 ] , US Secretary of State James Baker held talks with Gorbachev , Pankin and Bakatin , with the RSFSR President Boris Yeltsin and its Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev , and with the Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov and the Chief of General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces Gen. Vladimir Lobov .
19 During his official week-long visit to the USA which began on Sept. 14 , Fujimori was praised by President Bush for curbing human rights abuses and combating the " deadly scourge " of drugs .
20 At a joint emergency session of the Federal Assembly in Prague which began on Sept. 11 , Czech leftist and Slovak Christian Democrat deputies spoke out strongly against the proposed liquidation of the Federation .
21 The national conference on the political future of the country which began on Feb. 25 , 1991 ended on June 10 .
22 At Gbagbo 's trial , which began on Feb. 27 , lawyers called for all charges against him and 19 other defendants to be dropped " to prove to the world that the rule of law exists and that Côte d'Ivoire is not a police state " .
23 According to the report Kuomintang troops brought over from the mainland massacred between 18,000 and 28,000 people following what was deemed to be a Communist-inspired rebellion which began on Feb. 28 , 1947 .
24 King Mswati made his first official foreign visits in October 1989 , in a three-week tour which began on Oct. 6 in Mozambique where he met President Joaquim Chissano .
25 Moroni , situated on Njazidja , was the scene of the worst clashes which began on Oct. 19 .
26 During the campaign for the presidential and congressional elections which began on Aug. 11 , about 35 people were detained and eight injured in confrontations with police at rallies for two of the candidates , Aylwin and Hernán Büchi , on Oct. 12 .
27 In the latest outbreak of fighting in the capital , Kabul , which began on May 12th and was continuing this week , at least 600 people have died and more than 3,000 have been injured .
28 Hanging over the increasingly tense political situation throughout May was the fate of more than 100 prisoners taking part in a mass hunger strike which began on May 1 and was still continuing at the end of the month .
29 The Soviet Union 's clear lead over the USA in manned , especially long duration , space flights on the Mir space station , the ninth of which began on May 18 , 1991 , was increasingly being set against the scientific value of cheaper unmanned space probes , even though these were also subject to financial cutbacks .
30 Strikes which began on May 11 , involving workers in both the public and private sectors , escalated on May 14 , when the involvement of merchant seamen raised fears that Venezuela 's crucial oil exports would be badly affected .
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