Example sentences of "[was/were] begin [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 2 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 3 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 4 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 5 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 6 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 7 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 8 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 9 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 10 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 11 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 12 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |