Coming out of research into such nonlinear systems as the weather, the structural analogies it suggestedbeganto be applied to many different fields.From theCambridge English Corpus
The composer drafted his own libretto in 1887 andbeganthe music in 1890.From theCambridge English Corpus
The first tactical error was made before the operationbegan.From theCambridge English Corpus
Jean and his familybeganthe 1993-4 growing season quite methodically.From theCambridge English Corpus
The differential income levels across income-status groups over a variety of characteristics were first widened butbeganto converge in a catch-up phase of growth.From theCambridge English Corpus
As was always the case, hebeganhis repor t after receiving a prompt from the chair.From theCambridge English Corpus
The second way in which cultural influences spreadbeganwith the army.From theCambridge English Corpus
During the hot summer months, theybeganpouring at 4am and finished by 10am.From theCambridge English Corpus
The participantsbeganthe moving window practice trial with an asterisk on the screen.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thusbeganthe five years during which there was nothing to eat.From theCambridge English Corpus
Gradually, however things in the shrinebeganto change.From theCambridge English Corpus
Each experimental trialbeganwith a 1500-ms presentation of a fixation mark (*) that was centered in the middle of the screen.From theCambridge English Corpus
One group of participantsbeganthe intervention program in the spring semester of 1998, another in spring 1999, and a third in fall 1999.From theCambridge English Corpus
Hebeganto think about a new strategy for party-building at this time, one more conventional than the others.From theCambridge English Corpus
Manybeganto fear that it would undermine hallowed indigenous abosom and their own authority.From theCambridge English Corpus
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