Example sentences of "[verb] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploiting the feebleness of this excuse , Mr Gonzalez has began to regain the ground lost after the televised debate . |
| 2 | Feminist research has begun to restore the balance by researching women 's lives , by demonstrating how far British society is dominated by men , by reinterpreting evidence originally produced by men , and by devising techniques suited to researching women 's issues . |
| 3 | But these reactions are a later development when anger has begun to take the system over and commandeer all its ways of expressing displeasure . |
| 4 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
| 5 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 6 | It is only in the last generation that British education has begun to grasp the idea that schooling should maximise the opportunity of every individual child . |
| 7 | Writing of the Salon des Indépendants of 1914 , Apollinaire saw another influence at work : ‘ This year Futurism has begun to invade the Salon , and whereas from the reproductions they publish , the Italian Futurists appear to be ever more strongly influenced by the innovators of Paris ( Picasso and Braque ) , it would seem that a certain number of Parisian artists are being influenced by Futurist theories . ’ |
| 8 | First , it has begun to examine the revolution ‘ from below ’ , to penetrate beneath the world of high politics to developments in the factory , in the village , in the barracks and trenches . |
| 9 | It is of interest to note that in seeking to systematize referral procedures Owen has begun to undermine the principle of flexibility which was one of the advantages such provision was thought to have over special schools . |
| 10 | The Sunday Express has begun to reap the rewards of a series of promotions with its largest circulation increase since it was relaunched under the editorship of Eve Pollard in May last year . |
| 11 | It has begun to erode the banks which it built up over millennia . |
| 12 | NEC has begun to differentiate the ‘ 48 series ’ of workstations ( named to distinguish but create associations with the Japanese standard PC 98 series ) into three categories . |
| 13 | NEC has begun to differentiate the ‘ 48 series ’ of workstations ( named to distinguish but create associations with the Japanese standard PC 98 series ) into three categories . |
| 14 | It is a war which has begun to embarrass the interveners . |
| 15 | Three armagnac houses have been taken over by cognac firms , and double distillation ( méthode Charentaise ) has begun to infiltrate the region . |
| 16 | And it 's perhaps not surprising that Hollywood has begun to repay the compliment . |
| 17 | In his recent initiatives on the curriculum , testing , primary education and teacher training , Mr Clarke has begun to change the culture of our body educational . |
| 18 | While research looks like taking more of a backseat in the new government , the extent to which Fabius will change research policy will become apparent only when he has begun to change the people in key staff positions . |
| 19 | Work has begun to refloat the oil tanker which caused pollution off Alaska . |
| 20 | Increased environmental awareness has begun to reveal the physical impact of encouraging private modes of transport . |
| 21 | WORK has begun to convert the ruined Gothic Rockhall Cottage at the Roaches into a climbing hut to commemorate the life and climbs of Don Whillans . |
| 22 | That has made a huge difference , and in terms of the response to the issues among so-called ‘ decision-makers ’ it is this increasing ability on the part of the environmental organisations to marshal good accurate evidence behind them that has begun to tilt the balance of opinion in their favour . |
| 23 | Apart from the UK , which has begun to deregulate the airline industry , all continental airlines pay workers substantially more than in the United States , even though countries like Spain and Portugal have much lower living standards in general . |
| 24 | Moreover , as with studies of resource allocation and budgeting in households containing young children ( Graham , 1987a , 1987b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a ) , research has begun to uncover the unequal ways in which these pressures are experienced within care-giving households , with carers lowering their own standards of living in order to safeguard the needs of the person receiving care . |
| 25 | Revisionist work in this area is less advanced than on the events of 1917 itself , but it has begun to unravel the process which led to the rapid breakdown of the broad popular alliance of October , the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik party , and the transformation in the nature of its power . |
| 26 | The federal prosecutor for crimes of terror and extremism , Alexander von Stahl , has begun to investigate the right-wing kind , albeit belatedly . |
| 27 | In particular , the large romanized buildings have tended to dominate a disproportionate amount of past excavation at the expense of the more vernacular structures , even though recent evidence has begun to redress the balance . |
| 28 | Now a new study has begun to understand the potential threat of volcano-related earth tremors to future offshore platforms . |
| 29 | They were tantalizingly obscure — no sooner did you think you 'd begun to grasp the gist when it slipped through your fingers . |
| 30 | Her mother had thought she would fail and had pinned all her hopes on Dana , who 'd begun to attract the attention of the Press . |