Example sentences of "[adv] begun [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few experiences of community education , linking formal with non-formal methods such as the bi-lingual education in Scotland , have only begun to demonstrate the validity of a community orientated approach to learning . |
| 2 | Oral historians had meanwhile begun to record the earlier memories of ordinary old people , working right across the country . |
| 3 | Siegfried had just begun to take the stairs three at a time when his brother descended from the landing , knotting his tie with perfect composure . |
| 4 | The class had just begun to read the play which I had chosen when at 11am the radio relay came to life with an announcer saying : This is London ’ , followed by the announcement that the King had died in the early hours of the morning and proclaiming the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne , ’ recalls Mr Dowling of Staindrop Drive , Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | Police were given a 15-minute warning by telephone and had just begun to clear the area . |
| 6 | Some have not begun to appreciate the purpose of print . |
| 7 | President De Klerk , he said , had not begun to address the central issue , ‘ that is , the creation of a non-racial democracy in a unitary state ’ . |
| 8 | Still totally disillusioned by Hugh 's defection , she had not begun to consider the possibility of a new relationship . |
| 9 | The first swap was in December 1983 but the council had not begun to play the market in earnest until late 1987 . |
| 10 | Liberal forces have already begun to collect the million signatures needed to call a popular vote . |
| 11 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 12 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 13 | From the curvature of the arc , I had already begun to estimate the position of the hub . |
| 14 | But Allison has gone further than just stating the theoretical arguments for the process , he has already begun to explore the actual practicalities of implementing assessment techniques with the aid of students in his department . |
| 15 | It is worth noticing here that we have already begun to formulate the problem in a more practical way : that we are carving out parts of the general problem which can be observed . |
| 16 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 17 | Nechaev 's dictatorial style highlighted an issue that had already begun to exercise the populists . |
| 18 | As Haslemere has already begun to make the town accessible for wheelchair-bound people , would n't it be nice if the town could become totally accessible for both able bodied and disabled people . |
| 19 | In terms of active , practical government and politics , however , it was the Investiture Contest that had already begun to change the face of European government . |
| 20 | By then he had also begun to produce the works for which he is principally remembered , pen or lithographic facsimile reproductions of early printing and wood engraving , generally intended to remedy defects in existing copies of books . |
| 21 | I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field . |
| 22 | Father Paddy had now begun to say the Confiteor in preparation for Communion . |
| 23 | Although , historically , man has modified animal behaviour , and its physical characteristics for his own benefit , we have only now begun to weigh the ethical consequences of our activities with animals . |
| 24 | The boost to disposable income comes at an awkward time , when the economic slowdown is not sufficiently well-established to have even begun to close the trade gap ; but the structural change is welcome . |
| 25 | The one area where nothing seemed to have occurred was in setting up a Social Fund , since the Six had even begun to grasp the nettle of a common agricultural policy , agreeing in January 1962 to introduce common target prices for the most important farm products and a levy on agricultural imports into the EEC . |
| 26 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , but he has not even begun to justify the Government 's action . |
| 27 | The ubiquitous MS-DOS and Apple Mac environments have even begun to permeate the client/server world . |
| 28 | We have at least begun to shed the unattractive reputation which association with such heresies creates . |
| 29 | One has then begun to develop the figures needed to show how the cash flows and costs will be affected by actions taken to restructure the value chain . |
| 30 | Firstly , and not surprisingly , there was a biography of The New York Dolls ( he had then begun to run The Hew York Dolls fan club ) , then a strange existential affair entitled ‘ James Dean Is Dead ’ which dealt with his hero 's problems with the spoils of success . |