Example sentences of "[noun sg] began in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police " daily unrest report " for April 15 recorded one of the most violent days since the fighting began in Natal in 1986 , with 20 deaths in the region , in spite of the latest security measures . |
| 2 | The fighting began in 1976 , the year after independence . |
| 3 | In the North , at Durham Priory , some leasing of demesne began in the late fourteenth century , but the main period at which it was rented out was between 1408 and 1416 , perhaps some two decades later than at Christ Church , Canterbury ( 80 , pp.79 , 90 , 131 ; 209 p.272 ) . |
| 4 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
| 5 | Once under the Kelvin and twice under the Clyde , the making of the Glasgow Underground began in 1891 and involved two enormous explosions under the Clyde to open up twin 20-foot holes for the tunnels . |
| 6 | Labour began in the 1890s because the Liberal Party failed to respond to social change . |
| 7 | It was the beginning of the summer , three months before college began in the autumn . |
| 8 | Monasticism began in the deserts of Egypt . |
| 9 | The wicker industry began in Camacha , where it is still concentrated today . |
| 10 | It has been overtaken by local practices and informal agreements — and that has been the case since mechanisation of the industry began in the 1950s . |
| 11 | His career in the malt industry began in 1938 . |
| 12 | His experience of the industry began in 1958 when he worked at Immingham Docks , before transferring to Wallingford as assistant engineer . |
| 13 | Sims 's social reporting began in 1881 , with three sets of articles in the Sunday Dispatch — ‘ The Social Kaleidoscope ’ , ‘ The Three Brass Balls ’ , and ‘ The Theatre of Life ’ . |
| 14 | The research began in the autumn of 1986 . |
| 15 | The effort to explore the energy potential of the volcano began in 1986 with financial help from the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and the United Nations . |
| 16 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 17 | In January 1971 , shooting began in what Patrick Agan , a previous biographer of Hoffman , called ‘ a desolate corner of Britain' , a risible if not insulting reference to the county of Cornwall . |
| 18 | The four months of shooting began in October 1972 , much of it in the Abruzzi , in the mountain town of Ascoli Piceno ( well photographed by Carlo Rustichelli ) , with studio work at the De Paolis Studio in Rome . |
| 19 | Later that month , an action began in the High Court between John Lydon and Glitterbest , in which Lydon asked the High Court to render the management agreement void and appoint a receiver to sort out the Sex Pistols ' affairs and finances . |
| 20 | In Asturias strike action began in late December 1991 in all the mines owned by the state company Hunosa ( the biggest employer in the region , which had made a loss of 65,000 million ptas — US$674 million — in 1991 ) in protest at a restructuring plan which would involve the loss of 6,000 jobs by the end of 1993 at a saving of only 15,000 million ptas . |
| 21 | Action began in earnest in the summer . |
| 22 | Berkshire 's formidable Drake/Smith partnership began in the opening double confrontation in perfect harmony as they out-pointed Queens Patrick Hughesman and Mark Loosemore , 6–4 6–4 . |
| 23 | First opened in 1806 , its heyday began in 1831 when Madame Vestris ( 1797–1856 ) took it over . |
| 24 | The association began in 1863 . |
| 25 | This long association began in 1936 when Edith , then attending an evening class in Dagenham , Essex , first came under the influence of the ‘ ladies in blue ’ — Molly Braithwaite and Peggy Secord . |
| 26 | Comprehensive reorganization began in 1965 , although most schools were not reorganized on this basis until the mid-1970s . |
| 27 | This concentration of the opposition vote began in 1992 's general election . |
| 28 | This randomised controlled study began in August 1979 , and recruitment continued until June 1986 . |
| 29 | Rebuilt to full flying condition began in 1987 when Nick Grace , of Spitfire ML407 fame , brought the Mk XI back from Holland , where it had been displayed since 1960 at Overloon . |
| 30 | The most recent wave of community opposition began in the occupied north with the formation of the Lignite Action Group ( LAG ) to oppose mining of lignite in the Moortown/Ardboe area of Co . |