Example sentences of "begun [to-vb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once income has begun to fall and businessmen 's expectations become pessimistic , persistent unemployment may be created , far worse than the initial disturbance might have suggested . |
| 2 | We had begun to worry that Ramses was a deaf mute . |
| 3 | The gap had barely begun to appear before Kelly was driving Boardwalk through , but he seemed to take for ever to pick up speed . |
| 4 | He had already begun to wonder if fusion could be responsible for the helium production when he discovered the Soviet paper on helium in metals — the same paper that the Indians had read . |
| 5 | Even before he became one of the pioneering geneticists , William Bateson ( 1861–1926 ) had abandoned Darwinism and had begun to insist that evolution is driven by discontinuous variations or saltations . |
| 6 | Well , lately I 've begun to understand that God has been punishing me for my pride and my past wickedness . |
| 7 | Banks have begun to recognize that consolidation of air transport is as common as containerization of ocean cargo . |
| 8 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 9 | She had even begun to believe that Nora would understand this grand passion . |
| 10 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 11 | By the mid-18th century trade had begun to expand and money became available for more adventurous schemes . |
| 12 | Lately , he had begun to think that evolution was something that would occur in the soul and , in time , the fripperies of science would be revealed to be dangerous toys . |
| 13 | The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 . |
| 14 | However this evidence relates to the early stages of the reforms , when the market had hardly begun to operate and control was tight . |
| 15 | Lately she had begun to feel that things were changing , or that she was changing . |
| 16 | Franco interpreted as threatening anything that escaped his personal control , and by May 1941 he had begun to feel that Serrano and his collaborators were doing just that . |
| 17 | But his words and attitudes heartened the Danzig Party , who had begun to feel that Berlin no longer cared for the city 's struggle against Poland and Polish trade . |
| 18 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |