Example sentences of "[noun pl] have begin [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I would find that the grass had carpeted the rubble and the bushes had begun to climb the torn traffic lights . |
| 2 | From the point of view of consumers of produce grown by slave labour the advantage was going to be equally clear ; supplies of cotton from free-labour sources had begun to enter the British market and were substantially effective in reducing prices . |
| 3 | Each in its own way , the four works examine the role of the novel in an age in which electronic networks have begun to overtake the printed codex as the archetypical manifestation of the word . |
| 4 | It was only then that evil men had begun to disturb the ancient arrangements which had the stamp of Gregory 's authority . |
| 5 | By the 1990s the change to the meritocrats had begun to affect the highest levels of the party . |
| 6 | There is evidence that the same trends have begun to permeate the private sector . |
| 7 | Yet it is only in the past decade that biologists have begun to appreciate the real extent of it . |
| 8 | The delay proved wise , since in the meantime pressure of world events had begun to draw the two sides closer together again . |