Example sentences of "[noun] begun " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hollow , enclosed by a massive earthen bank , was the fishpond begun by the lord of the manor before his death in 1175 , and completed by his son : ‘ Odo de Berton grants to Roger de St John the land between the garden of Roger and the road to the bridge together with the moor where Thomas de St John began to make his fishpond , rendering yearly a pair of spurs or twopence . ’ |
| 2 | The introduction of the wages boards completed the decasualization of agricultural labour begun by the licensing of itinerant agricultural gangs in 1867 . |
| 3 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 4 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 5 | Once the home of the town 's railway works , the developer Tarmac has already %s begun work on a three hundred million pounds plan to transform the derelict site with offices , shops , houses and a hotel , creating thousands of jobs . |
| 6 | The findings of a comprehensive review begun last year into ‘ externalising ’ £12 million-worth of services are said to represent the most radical purchaser/provided shake-up yet . |
| 7 | An austerity programme begun in September 1988 was beginning to bite , raising fears that Peking would try to rein in the independent-minded southern provinces . |
| 8 | the on-going place producing programme begun in 1970 was suspended indefinitely and expenditure is now limited to completing major place producing and redevelopment projects already under way . |
| 9 | The agricultural reform , on which a constitutional amendment was tabled on Nov. 7 , put an end to the land distribution programme begun after the 1910-20 revolution , allowed private companies to buy agricultural land and form associations with co-operative farmers ( ejidatarios ) , and permitted the farmers , who currently had only the use of their plots , to own and dispose of them as they wished and , with the approval of their co-operative , to form joint ventures with private investors . |
| 10 | The inquiry follows from earlier longitudinal research begun in 1980 of working-class women with at least one child at home living in Islington , an inner city area of London where levels of social deprivation are high . |
| 11 | In the 1890s many local authorities appointed lady health visitors , a practice begun on a voluntary basis in Manchester and Salford in the 1860s . |
| 12 | But in other cases , an application for a declaration or injunction may be made under Order 53 but may alternatively be made by way of an action begun by writ or originating summons . |
| 13 | Finally , claims based on public law rights might well raise factual issues more suited to resolution in an action begun by writ than by Ord. 53 procedure ; conversely , claims based on private law rights may well raise no such issues — which is why originating summons procedure is available as an alternative to writ procedure for claims brought outside Ord. 53 . |
| 14 | After the close of pleadings in an action begun by writ there must be discovery by the parties to the action of the documents which are or have been in their possession , custody or power relating to matters in question in the action . |
| 15 | The only provision of Order 11 under which leave might be given was that dealing with the case where ‘ in the action begun by the writ an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything within the jurisdiction … |
| 16 | any fact required to be proved at the trial of any action begun by writ by the evidence of witnesses shall be proved by the examination of witnesses orally and in open court . |
| 17 | An action begun in Glasgow for possession of the books , papers and effects was turned down on the grounds that the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not registered in Scotland and that the complaint had therefore been raised " without title or authority " , though these effects were , claimed Shinwell , later handed over " for the sake of peace and quiet " . |
| 18 | 1.2 The first point is of general importance to both liability and quantum : namely , that the basic rule relating to evidence contained in RSC Ord 38 , r1 ( see Appendix C ) and CCR Ord 20 , r4 provides that questions of fact should be proved at the hearing of any action begun by writ or of any action in a county court by the examination of witnesses orally in open court . |
| 19 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 20 | A marriage begun without financial security looks hazardous to the poet , let alone where the man seems cunning and manipulative . |
| 21 | A campaign begun in 1971 to repeal the ban dating from 1935 culminated in the famous appeal of Mrs McGee to the Supreme Court to declare she had a right to use contraceptives . |
| 22 | It was reported that 200,000 of these had registered officially as addicts by the July 23 deadline set by the government at the start of its new anti-drugs campaign begun in early January 1989 . |
| 23 | Referring to the 1989 Ochoa drug scandal [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] and the " situation of socialism worldwide " , the committee declared that the PCC had to be the object , as well as the instrument , of the " rectification " campaign begun in 1986 [ see also p. 35118 ] . |
| 24 | Fire alarms were to be provided and fire drills begun . |
| 25 | If , by the morning after , there is no reaction to the food , then it can be incorporated into the diet , and testing begun on a new food . |
| 26 | It is a large-scale data collection and analysis exercise begun back in the early 1960s by the General Electric Company . |
| 27 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 28 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 29 | ‘ I will continue the work begun by Neil Kinnock of modernising the structures and procedures of the party so that it can produce policies relevant to the society of today and tomorrow , and can campaign effectively for them . |
| 30 | The line ferret follows up the work begun by the loose or muzzled ferret , and is rarely if ever encumbered with a muzzle itself . |