Example sentences of "begins [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appointment of a slave to the office of Grand Vezir in 857/1453 , however , set the seal on the tendency to man the highest offices of the central administration , the vezirliks , with slaves ; and though it was by no means unheard of for a member of the ulema thereafter to hold a vezirlik , one begins to see the development of a separate hierarchy more or less confined to members of the ulema , the highest offices in which , known as were an end in themselves and not mere stepping-stones to high office in other areas such as the central administration . |
| 2 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 3 | Though the successive events of the journey are exciting in themselves , dramatic irony adds an edge to them , becoming more telling as the Rat begins to guess the truth . |
| 4 | It appears that Neumann 's conversion is taking place incrementally : he quietly begins to accept the concept of a one-in-a-bar tempo for a Haydn minuet marked Allegretto , and here he steps ten significant MM degrees ahead of Marty , whose fastest-ever tempo for a Menuetto Allegro is 56 . |
| 5 | It begins to blur the clarity of the night . |
| 6 | But when the Friend begins to age the Poet would wish to die : Here the motif of giving and receiving love , central to this group , uses the traditional metaphor of exchanging hearts , but reanimates it by the particularity with which the trope is extended . |
| 7 | The underdog cuts off her glamourous tresses for ’ serious hair ’ and begins to impersonate the boss . |
| 8 | Ed : Chemistry in Britain , being aimed at a wider audience than the RSC 's primary and secondary publications , will continue to use the familiar ‘ sulphur ’ for the present , at least until general usage begins to reflect the change . |
| 9 | Artistic and cultural disabled-led practice which positions its gaze towards this interface begins to reflect the struggle . |
| 10 | Joanna , trying to cope with the painful fact that she can not ever have a baby , begins to remember the life of 19th-century Anna and her son , Merlin . |
| 11 | There is nothing philosophical about this in itself , but it begins to create the habit of mind that begins to take for granted the natural superiority of science and rational thinking . |
| 12 | Towards the limits of the pluviose zone , in Alava and southern Navarre , the village begins to replace the homestead and the aristocratic element in society is stronger . |
| 13 | Only on a long , fast bend can the tail be persuaded to step out , and then only under strong provocation and with little drama , as the drivetrain begins to feed the power rearwards . |
| 14 | Unless some approach to a standard emerges — something which is extremely unlikely ; neither online nor offline training even begins to tackle the problem — most people will use many different catalogues , and even with instruction a substantial proportion will never be able to grasp the principles of Boolean logic and the combination of sets . |
| 15 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 16 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 17 | Taking three regular meals with nothing in between removes the risk of " grazing " like cattle all day long and begins to re-educate the eye and the stomach in what constitutes a " normal " portion of food . |
| 18 | First , one begins to question the need for frequent rote regurgitation of words which lack intrinsic interest . |
| 19 | Harriet sits down , begins to hum the Marseillaise . |
| 20 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 21 | She also begins to understand the power of her sexuality , which when purged of its impurity and wantonness can greatly enhance the life and luck of her husband . |
| 22 | One scans the selling power of The Smiths and begins to realise the answer . |
| 23 | However , once one begins to argue the toss about the liberal value of various academic subjects , it becomes difficult to exclude any of them : Do not medicine and engineering raise profound questions about life ? |
| 24 | One begins to appreciate the Tour as a true marathon , seeming to pack a lifetime 's experience into one sporting event . |
| 25 | As the fire lights the JPT rises and a hum of gradually increasing pitch and volume begins to pervade the area . |
| 26 | Stand former British heavyweight and light-heavyweight champion boxer Bunny Johnson alongside the diminutive British international sprinter Ainsley Bennett and one begins to get the idea . |
| 27 | The search becomes desperate and one begins to get the impression that Aristotle alone is going to fit the bill . |
| 28 | Everyone at once begins to take the piss out of him . |
| 29 | Once one begins to examine the system in any detail , the institutional variations seem virtually endless ; and standardized titles and labels often conceal even more informal variety . |
| 30 | Section 2.4 begins to examine the debate about how the dramatically changing geography of manufacturing can be explained . |