Example sentences of "beginning [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge house at Deauville , with its gardens and private beach , was sold to one of the newly oil-rich Americans just beginning to invest in European property . |
| 2 | As to what happens now he says I 've to go to Magistrate 's Court so it 's just beginning to sink in that it 's gon na cost him some brass and it 's going to be serious . |
| 3 | Various papers and magazines were beginning to thrive in this new atmosphere . |
| 4 | The hissing of the rain was beginning to sound like whispered voices now ; like a multitude of whispering voices in the darkness . |
| 5 | One is beginning to sound like Big Ben . |
| 6 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |
| 7 | The umbrella-holder had understood the nature of his task and positioned himself to the left of the other , holding the umbrella to parry the rain which was beginning to fall with increasing severity . |
| 8 | What we are beginning to see in this country — and I welcome it very much — is a sharp slowdown in the rise in unemployment . |
| 9 | ‘ She went to Germany , ’ Flora said , stopping to peer at the wall , where moss was beginning to swell into new plump spring cushions . |
| 10 | Griffin left the Turkish arena with his other eye beginning to swell after another fine performance which he won 9–7 but now faces his toughest test , a date with the championship doctor . |
| 11 | He was rock hard , fully aroused beneath the rough denim of his bermudas , and she froze , beginning to struggle in nameless fear … completely new emotions were being aroused much too fast . |
| 12 | By that time Sheila Rowbotham was beginning to come into peripheral contact with the magazine . |
| 13 | What was new was that socialism and internationalism , the two basic components of Labour 's ideology , were beginning to pull in opposite directions . |
| 14 | The women in the camps are beginning to work in small income-generating projects , mostly handicraft production , dividing whatever they earn between every family . |
| 15 | The interior of Armstrong was beginning to smell of wet dogs and that just added to my bad mood . |
| 16 | A blackbird sang from a hazel tree with swinging yellow catkins ; buds were just beginning to open into miniature bright green leaves . |
| 17 | Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham . |
| 18 | He held on to his love of unregimented activity in the open air , away from encroaching London suburbia , and he cherished a sense of belonging to another country — Cambria or Gwalia , Glamorgan or Gwent — in addition to the still strange city he was slowly beginning to explore along both banks of the Thames . |
| 19 | The promise of enlarged democratic rights had encouraged the ‘ playful giant ’ to be less submissive than formerly , Arnold thought , and he was beginning to assert with increasing regularity ‘ his right to march where he likes , meet where he likes , enter where he likes , hoot as he likes , threaten as he likes , smash as he likes ’ : Matthew Arnold thus proposed in the late 1860s that crime and disorder should be understood as a consequence of the already evident ‘ permissive ’ disintegration of the stable traditions , and although he was not narrowly obsessed with street violence and rowdyism , nevertheless these were an integral feature of his vision of decay — something which was deeply characteristic of this era . |
| 20 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 21 | This is now happening in Scotland and the kingdom is beginning to veer to one or the other of the two powerful families with such claims to the throne . |
| 22 | Also on the A thirty four , at Great Rollright near Chipping Norton , there 's been a serious accident there and there are tailbacks beginning to grow in both directions . |
| 23 | It still had its pepper trade and the factories in India at Surat and Madras , and at Bantam in the East Indies , with a number of smaller bases , and it was beginning to look for new opportunities . |
| 24 | Boasts from DEC that its Alpha RISC is at least 1,000 times scalable , are beginning to look like pure hubris : maybe they might be able to snap eight processors together on a bus eventually , but reportedly all its got now is four and supposedly that 's not working too well . |
| 25 | Still no purchase and it was beginning to look like all or nothing . |
| 26 | Armed with this concession , and under pressure from Mr Milosevic , whose own country is beginning to buckle under international sanctions , Mr Karadzic duly signed , subject to parliament 's approval . |
| 27 | Around the same time the first desktop publishing programs , although they were n't called that , were beginning to emerge on Unix-based engines like the Sun and Apollo . |
| 28 | These have to be the finest among American concertos : the Barber is standard repertoire now , but Serenade ( after Plato , ‘ in praise of love ’ ) is only just beginning to emerge as one of Bernstein 's highly select group of masterpieces — about time too . |
| 29 | EXCITING applications are beginning to emerge for dissolving glass , a material discovered accidentally in a telephone company 's laboratory . |
| 30 | Nizan 's communist novels , produced within this global historical framework , may consequently be contextualised in the following manner : ( a ) Antoine Bloye , written between 1931 and 1933 , was produced at a moment of sectarian cultural politics , a moment when the French communist party was just beginning to emerge from political isolationism , a moment when the French working class was just beginning to reassert itself . |