Example sentences of "have begun [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As well as the 150MHz Alpha AXP machines designed to run Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , Digital Equipment Corp has begun developing a new line of Alpha microprocessors addressed specifically at the personal computer market , according to US PC Week .
2 The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping .
3 EVERY now and again , just when flower arranging has begun to seem a reasonable way of spending Saturday afternoons , the game produces something which restores the faith .
4 Seiko Epson has begun using the new technology to make 4″ displays , aiming to grow output to 1.5m a year .
5 Conventional vetinary medicine failed to help the bird , but since undergoing a course of acupuncture at a surgery in Stroud , the Swan has begun to make a remarkable recovery .
6 Increased environmental awareness has begun to reveal the physical impact of encouraging private modes of transport .
7 Moreover , as with studies of resource allocation and budgeting in households containing young children ( Graham , 1987a , 1987b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a ) , research has begun to uncover the unequal ways in which these pressures are experienced within care-giving households , with carers lowering their own standards of living in order to safeguard the needs of the person receiving care .
8 AUSTRALIA is now in its seventh week without domestic air services because of a pilots ' pay dispute which has begun to have a serious impact on the economy and has left Bob Hawke 's Labor government few options for reaching a settlement .
9 The federal prosecutor for crimes of terror and extremism , Alexander von Stahl , has begun to investigate the right-wing kind , albeit belatedly .
10 Now a new study has begun to understand the potential threat of volcano-related earth tremors to future offshore platforms .
11 Fujitsu Ltd has begun marketing the Sparclite series of RISC microprocessors .
12 The larger Fender headstock is adorned with F-stamped Kluson enclosed machines , these having begun to replace the original Kluson fitments from 1967 .
13 Just as my tankman , when we had smoked our cigarettes must have begun to realise the horrendous trauma he had just been through — so , upon reaching home and spreading the news — I too began to dwell upon that single notorious word .
14 ‘ Academic respectability ’ prevailed and courses which might have begun to address the key question — what skills and expertise are crucial to the art of teaching and how can these best be learned and applied ? — were never developed .
15 Then , just as we had begun to enjoy the blissful peace and calm of spring , the wedding season reached its climax .
16 By the end of the 1930s , however , the economic elite had begun to recolonise the political institutions created in the Depression .
17 The delay proved wise , since in the meantime pressure of world events had begun to draw the two sides closer together again .
18 And she had begun to form a unique library of prints she liked .
19 True , the crab-men had begun to take an unhealthy interest in him once his companions had rushed off after the Harlequin man .
20 This was especially noticeable amongst younger Conservatives in the Commons , and amongst the life peers who had begun to join the Upper House in increasing numbers since the Life Peerages Act in 1958 .
21 It was only then that evil men had begun to disturb the ancient arrangements which had the stamp of Gregory 's authority .
22 By the 1990s the change to the meritocrats had begun to affect the highest levels of the party .
23 A major destination for African slaves was the Caribbean islands where British settlers had begun to generate a huge demand for forced labour on sugar , cotton , coffee and tobacco plantations .
24 He had begun building a water-powered factory and consolidating his landed estate by purchase .
25 Greenpeace workers had begun packaging the 425 tonnes of waste , dumped in the Sibiu area of central Romania , for safe transport back to Germany and said they would remain at the site until the transport promised by German Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer arrived .
26 In the meantime , Castro had begun to jettison the middle class and to cultivate support among the peasantry , workers and students through the use of nationalistic and class appeals .
27 Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 .
28 His output in these later years shows that he made every effort to adapt to changing economic circumstances : Austria was then at war with the Ottoman Empire , and the war effort had begun to drain the financial resources of the upper-class patrons on whose support Mozart relied .
29 After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all .
30 Earlier in the day Eric had begun to fake a bad stomach ache and made long and numerous trips to the lavatory .
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