Example sentences of "[noun] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We therefore declare that nations begin to consider the development of scientifically based national non-communicable disease plans . |
| 2 | They say here that he will do no more of these questionless immobile heads as his designs begin to set the immobile against the mobile . |
| 3 | The first intimations that the forces which had lain dormant for two centuries would soon be unleashed came in the late 1870s , when frequent minor earthquakes began to shake the areas round the Sunda Straits . |
| 4 | For a while they strolled in silence before Corbett began to ask the Prior about his vocation to the monastic life , enjoying the sardonic replies and surprised to find that the Prior was both a distant kinsman to Robert Bruce and a keen herbalist , interested in medicine , with a passion for concocting samples , potions and cures . |
| 5 | The artillery began to arrive the following day , large and small , but none , so far as the Scots could see , more powerful than their own . |
| 6 | Maxham began to scratch the other knee-cap . |
| 7 | But around 1955 various smart operators in the American and Canadian blasting industry began to see the light . |
| 8 | Accordingly , from the mid-1970s , research began to examine the perception and behaviour of individuals , and then to develop general conceptual and theoretical research , in a shift from the ‘ inductive ’ to the ‘ scientific ’ route shown in Figure I. I. Smith ( 1983 ) in another recent summary broadly agrees with Owens , and divides his textbook Recreation Geography into a four-stage continuum from description , to explanation , to prediction and finally to policy formulation . |
| 9 | Halema began to describe the life of the desert djinn who people the underworld . |
| 10 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 11 | Under Carters human rights programme , the state Department began to pressure the Shah to restrain his secret police , and Zahedis opulent flamboyance was ill suited for Carters desire for a less pretentious style of government . |
| 12 | As the Flamingo moved down the river the wind began to fill the sails . |
| 13 | It was n't long before the pain of loss began to penetrate the anaesthetic of crowds , of other people 's activity . |
| 14 | But by the middle of the twenties , when Ramsey began to study the matter , a new vision appeared . |
| 15 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 16 | As daylight filtered through the sea mist , the hostile and uncertain London of Blake 's future began to take the more reassuring form of a busy port . |
| 17 | The finchbacks spread into Glamorganshire and much of western England , and some white-faced finchbacks began to dominate the English side of the Welsh borders . |
| 18 | Almost immediately the new coalition began to question the criminal law approach to moral problems . |
| 19 | For , as the testing progressed , so my life outside of the sessions began to acquire the lineaments of a normalcy I had never felt before . |
| 20 | When a donor-funded Essential Drugs Programme began to supply the primary level with kits , WHO specifically recommended that : ‘ Mozambique should be supplied exclusively through UNIPAC and should not canvas suppliers independently ’ ( Cliff et al , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | On the night of 16 March , waters from melting snow began to burst the flood-banks in the Fens . |
| 22 | As a modest beginning to the work of the Communication Research Centre , two or three students in the English Department at U.C.L. began to study the use of language in public communication . |
| 23 | The main thrust of this book is , naturally , concentrated on the period around 1900 when attitudes within the reserved , even isolationist Murano were gradually relaxed , and from around 1910 , when Muranese glassmakers and designers began to re-join the international scene . |
| 24 | Joe was already out of the kitchen and half-way across the yard and Bella began to put the dishes together . |
| 25 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 26 | Beyond the Pleasure Principle ( 1920 ) was the first attempt to begin to formulate the notion of the death instincts . |
| 27 | We compare minor skin abrasions , and tell and retell our experiences until those brief moments of panic begin to assume the glow of adventure . |
| 28 | However , as vegetation and mineralized soils develop in the catchment , minerals , organic nutrients and soil microorganisms begin to enter the lake from this source . |
| 29 | Malekith befriends the Dwarf King Snorri Whitebeard and together the armies of Dwarfs and Elves begin to drive the remnants of Chaos from the lands . |
| 30 | They heard the door close and the footsteps begin to climb the stairs . |