Example sentences of "[was/were] begin [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deprived of the fertilisers so essential to the poor soil , German farms were beginning to conform to the law of diminishing returns . |
| 2 | That 's a relief — you were beginning to sound like a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 3 | And and er and there er I began to learn what the what what things were beginning to happen in the coal fields . |
| 4 | They had learned a new set of problem management techniques which they were beginning to use as a matter of course without seeing them as being a single method of solving a particular problem . |
| 5 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 6 | The scenery was fascinating ; mountains were beginning to appear in the distance , beckoning to her with a blue , misty enchantment , to which she responded with a longing she could n't believe she possessed . |
| 7 | The qualities of independence , singularity of viewpoint , and readiness to move far afield in pursuit of his inner wishes ( a characteristic of his father 's early career ) were beginning to appear in the son . |
| 8 | Handfuls of sleet were beginning to wander through the air . |
| 9 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 10 | Most certainly these were the sections of the working class who were beginning to benefit from the trend towards paid holidays , which was eventually formalized , after the Amulree Report , and the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938 . |
| 11 | But , despite the electric atmosphere , they were beginning to function as a team . |
| 12 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 13 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 14 | Henry III 's heart might , literally , be in Anjou , but ‘ by the end of his reign [ he ] was indisputably an English king and men were beginning to think of the Plantagenets as an English dynasty ’ . |
| 15 | By indulging in such policies , Professor Beer has contended , government was beginning to move in the direction of a managed economy . |
| 16 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 17 | She was beginning to respond to the tenderness of his fingers playing up and down her spine . |
| 18 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 19 | And today the whole thing was beginning to turn into a waking nightmare . |
| 20 | By the time he wrote the survey quoted above , evolutionary morphology was beginning to fall into the background as new sciences such as genetics took over the forefront of scientific research . |
| 21 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 22 | He was the boss , after all , but he was beginning to sound like a slave-driver . |
| 23 | At this vow , which he had repeated to her so often it was beginning to sound like a mantra , Ashley frowned . |
| 24 | It was beginning to sound like an inquisition . |
| 25 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 26 | But as the romance , continued to drag on , there were signs the story was wearing thin , especially for Jason , who was beginning to tire of the facade . |
| 27 | But Dufferin , now married to his cousin , Lindy Guinness , was beginning to tire of the avant-garde , and in 1972 , when the lease ran out , the gallery closed , with a stylish party at The Savoy . |
| 28 | She was beginning to tire on the stairs . |
| 29 | Like the Spanish , the Portuguese had not made new acquisitions since the great days of the sixteenth century , and they had lost their possessions in the Spice Islands , but Brazil continued to flourish and was beginning to emerge as the world 's main source of gold . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's gone wrong ? ’ he said , looking from Lucy to the rising commotion that was beginning to emerge from the restaurant behind her . |