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The phrase "was began" is not correct in written English
It is a grammatical error as "began" is the simple past tense of "begin," and should not be used with "was." Example: "The project was begun last year."
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It was began in 1804 as a fashionable rural retreat.
The scheme, if such it was, began unravelling almost at once.
Smith's redemption, such as it was, began with the outbreak of the Second World War.
Some time later, she again heard somebody walk overhead and then move off to one side, and whoever it was began burrowing.
The MetroPCS deal could introduce a broad new customer base to Rhapsody, which was began 10 years ago but has grown slowly.
When Paul was seventeen, she was began at the Slade, where she met a professor who took a great interest in her work — the artist Lucian Freud.
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It was begun in 1976.
Kern was beginning to sweat.
Work was begun in 1421.
The cycle was beginning anew.
She was beginning to shiver.
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