Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 2 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 3 | Demonstrators also began to gather outside the pit gates . |
| 4 | A rumour began to circulate around the cocktail bars of the music biz élite that The Smiths were unhappy with Rough Trade and , although still tied with contracts , were seeking to move away . |
| 5 | In May it was announced that the fleet name ‘ London TransporT ’ would be used and it began to appear on the waist panels of cars as repainted . |
| 6 | I think that 's the one danger of all of this , is that both the County Council 's and the District Council 's aim perhaps or now are beginning to listen to the parish councils , but also , just really get an eye off the ball , cos they 're looking for the increased responsibilities for their own purposes , and I think that 's one serious danger that we c have to face , as a local community . |
| 7 | Jaggeresque in appearance he began to sail through the submarine defences of the class system , rather as the English in India had transcended the caste structure . |
| 8 | As Greg broke into a sprint , he saw almost simultaneously — water beginning to play on the upstairs windows , a sudden spurt of flame , and a part of the roof begin to sag ominously . |
| 9 | And the Russians were here , just as the morning mist began to lift from the chateau grounds . |
| 10 | And and er and there er I began to learn what the what what things were beginning to happen in the coal fields . |
| 11 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 12 | Simultaneously with doing the evening performances — two on Saturday , at five and eight — he was recording episodes of Beyond Our Ken and making the latest ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry On Constable- and it began to show with the way Pieces of Eight proceeded . |
| 13 | Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire . |
| 14 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |