Example sentences of "it began [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
| 2 | It began to seem a possibility that an external observer would be able to predict whether or not an apparently relaxed subject was forming visual images . |
| 3 | ‘ It began to seem a craven sort of job . |
| 4 | Thus , it began to incorporate the principles of determinism and the differentiation of offenders from non-offenders that were to be the later hallmarks of positivist criminology . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp says that sales of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade topped 3m copies in April , the first month after it began shipping the product , bettering the previous record set by MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 upgrades combined ; sales of the upgrade were still supply-constrained , resulting in a backlog . |
| 6 | As its influence expanded , it began to promote a model of evolution that took far greater account of geographical factors . |
| 7 | Soon it began to create the steady whine that she had come to associate with this strange instrument . |
| 8 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 9 | When in 1795 it began holding a series of open-air demonstrations in London , surprising numbers seem to have attended — possibly more than 100,000 , given the tendency for such occasions to become " fairs " with women and children attending as well as men . |
| 10 | Five miles from Cotherstone it began to blow a blizzard . |
| 11 | At this stage it began to make a noise , or , rather , Twoflower started to hear the noise it had been making all along . |
| 12 | And then it began to get a bit darker . |
| 13 | This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) . |
| 14 | In 1982 it began to challenge the Haçienda as the alternative modern performance hall . |
| 15 | The missing element , however , was input from the clients themselves , so it began to develop a client care programme . |
| 16 | ICI has been in the polyethylene terephthalate business since the 1940s when it began to develop the material as a fibre — ‘ Terylene ’ — following its invention by two British chemists . |
| 17 | Unreeling cables , it began to lower the bundle . |
| 18 | Perhaps had the Ceauşescus ruled over a larger state their megalomania might have been more comfortably contained , but trapped inside little Romania it began to consume the whole nation and to penetrate into every area of life , even its most intimate secrets . |
| 19 | Then it began to understand the horror of its own predicament . |
| 20 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 21 | By now Radical in name only , the party found its ambitions satisfied by the mere arrival of a Republic ; forthwith it began to offer a refuge to former monarchists and adopt increasingly conservative positions on social issues . |
| 22 | Consequently , it began to offer a ‘ top-down ’ interpretation of processes and problems in society . |
| 23 | Scrunch , scrunch ; it began to eat the leaf . |
| 24 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |