11.   The company began as a small family business.

12.   The irony is that disco began as an extension of black dance music.

13.   What began as a stern test ended as a laugher.

14.   What began as pure fun, naturally, got competitive.

15.   What had begun as a time saving essential has now become my hobby.

16.   What began as a postwar fetish for sunbathing is rapidly developing into a world health crisis.

17.   The flames begin as a few streaks of red against the pale brown of the walls.

18.   Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy.

19.   The river begins as a trickle of water from a cleft in the rock.

20.   Most caseworkers begin as college-educated liberals with high ideals.