1.   Fortunately a small group of folk banded together determined to save the bird and the rescue operation began.

2.   The rescue operation began on Friday afternoon.

3.   An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.

4.   The repatriation operation would begin in mid-May.

5.   A further operation began the following spring in order to find further sections of the fuselage which were still missing.

6.   Once the operation had begun, the pattern of the Middle East crisis was repeated.

7.   Ten fighter jets from Upper Heyford have left the base for the last time, as the American operation there begins to wind down.

8.   If it fails, a riskier operation will begin on Thursday with about a dozen boats trying to shepherd the animals to safety.

9.   The UN rescue operation had begun soon after dawn when three French Puma helicopters flew into Srebrenica from the north-east Bosnian Muslim stronghold of Tuzla.