Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] began " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be when settlement patterns began to stabilise . |
| 2 | It is generally accepted that during the period of the First Crusade knights began to wear distinguishing marks of one kind or another . |
| 3 | The Nicholls brothers began legal action four years ago with Swindon firm Townsends . |
| 4 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 5 | All the major denominations made great strides between 1870 , when Board schools began supplementing the work done by older bodies to give elementary education to working people , and the end of the century , in creating a ministry with at least some higher education . |
| 6 | At this stage , Finishing Room and Maintenance personnel began an orchestrated campaign of cleaning re-organizing the Finishing Room and the process route . |
| 7 | The other factor was public opinion , and pressure from opposition groups began to mount . |
| 8 | The extraction activities began at Druridge bay many years ago and my right hon. Friend does not have powers to initiate environmental assessments in such circumstances . |
| 9 | Four Patriotic Accord deputies began immediate moves to impeach eight Supreme Court judges on the grounds of incompetence . |
| 10 | Meetings with liaison groups began to falter early in 1985 when the teachers ' dispute began to affect school activities other than actual classroom teaching . |
| 11 | The Partnership Programmes began to appear in 1978 , tending to conform to a standard pattern . |
| 12 | They were also social occasions when shipboard romances began . |
| 13 | When performing this same task for forty minutes after sleep loss subjects began by showing faster responses to the centrally placed lights than the peripheral ones , like rested subjects . |
| 14 | Enemy heads began appearing over the wall . |
| 15 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 16 | At this point the Arsenal fans began to drift home , their evening well and truly over . |
| 17 | The sequence of violence that crossed two police force areas began when Mr Anderson and his new fiancee Jackie Fisher , 22 , were confronted by a gunman in their parked car near Crosswood reservoir , on the Edinburgh to Lanark road . |
| 18 | Banks , factories , joint stock companies began slowly to replace the traditional economic machinery of Asia and Africa , as they had already replaced that of pre-industrial Europe . |
| 19 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 20 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 21 | The Industrial Research Associations began with such a function in the inter-war period and continue to play a similar role today . |
| 22 | They seemed set to continue talking forever , but the auditorium lights began to dim , so they scuttered off , giggling , to find their seats . |
| 23 | Students ' action committees began coordinating demonstrations and contacting workers ' organizations . |
| 24 | When the boom conditions began to disintegrate , the economic logic of capitalist production reasserted itself in a very brutal fashion ( chapter 14 ) . |
| 25 | Three months later , Allison was travelling home by train from London , where she had enrolled at an agency for temporary secretaries , when labour pains began . |
| 26 | Class 321 units continued to be delivered at the rate of two a week , and on the Isle of Wight ‘ new ’ 1938-built former London Underground trains began to be introduced to replace coaches dating from 1923 . |
| 27 | In the sixteenth century , rents and entry fines began to rise again , and lords no longer felt it desirable to ensure their income by lengthening the terms of leases , when frequent renegotiation of these could give them more opportunities to raise rents . |
| 28 | Since Comshare is better known for its well-established Commander EIS product , it would be no surprise to find that many of its corporate FDC users began , like British Aerospace , as EIS users . |
| 29 | A few thin snow flakes began to fall , drifting silently down out the leaden sky . |
| 30 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |