Example sentences of "[noun] began " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on dismantling the first pieces of sculpture in the Pavillon de Flore began in January this year ; their installation in the Richelieu wing is also due to be finished by autumn 1993 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 4 | I was disappointed especially once the obstetrician began talking Caesareans and epidurals . |
| 5 | Although Mr Hornsby was quick to stress that the investors have held a dialogue with the Revenue and have nothing to hide , he admitted that they got ‘ very upset ’ when letters from the Revenue began arriving . |
| 6 | There were a few complaints of poverty , but no signs of serious opposition ; and the revenue began to flow in , reaching about £60,000 . |
| 7 | With the slowing down of inflation in the mid-late 1970s , the ratio of direct to indirect taxes in total revenue began to fall . |
| 8 | Something about the feel of his lips tugging at her nipples began to excite Sally and though she still felt nothing but discomfort from his probing finger she relaxed a little , leaning her head back into the corner provided by the bench seat and the window . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't understand it , ’ Barnett began , fidgeting with his telephone . |
| 10 | the waves began to decrease . |
| 11 | He pressed in the number , then Bryce 's name , his face bathed in a green glow as first figures then images began to appear on the screen . |
| 12 | The fighting began with US parachute assaults at 1am , and a tank-led assault on the headquarters of the Panama Defence Forces caused widespread damage in the heart of the city . |
| 13 | In fact , once the fighting began , the dollar lost 3% against the yen and the D-mark overnight . |
| 14 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |
| 15 | John Nisbet , George Woodburn and John Morton arrived on the scene as the close fighting began . |
| 16 | When we moan about them , we should remember that 31 reporters have died in Yugoslavia since the fighting began . |
| 17 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 18 | It was here that the fighting began . |
| 19 | As the fighting began , women found themselves in a dilemma . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting began on Oct. 15 , when Habyarimana met Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens in Nairobi and Museveni ( currently Chairman of the Organization of African Unity — OAU ) in Tanzania . |
| 22 | By launching missiles into Israel [ see p. 37936 above ] the Iraqis fulfilled their promise that they would attack Israel if fighting began , a promise which Aziz had confirmed unequivocally ( " Yes , absolutely yes " ) on Jan. 9 in Geneva . |
| 23 | The fighting began in 1976 , the year after independence . |
| 24 | Heavy fighting began on Aug. 17 between Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) and the United Democratic Movement for Democracy ( Ulimo ) , a coalition of supporters of former President Samuel Doe , allegedly based in Sierra Leone . |
| 25 | The present chapter turns to the protagonists themselves as they appeared to the outside observer in 1980 , when continuous fighting began . |
| 26 | When the fighting began the UN had only 100 soldiers in the north , most of them signallers and engineers . |
| 27 | Human rights monitors say more than 7,000 people have been killed in Natal province since the fighting began . |
| 28 | Later minuets drew the shape of an ‘ S ’ as the footwork began to flow more easily . |
| 29 | Thus the doctrine of the mandate began to emerge . |
| 30 | A few days later the emergency evacuation of civilians from Suez to within the camp 's barbed wire perimeter fence began . |