Example sentences of "[adv] begin [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter presents a series of cameos which together begin to sketch in aspects of life in a northern town and its comprehensive school . |
| 2 | If therapeutic hypochlorhydria is carcinogenic to the stomach , gastric cancer associated with cimetidine use in 1977 should only begin to appear by now . |
| 3 | Very frequently counsel will only begin to prepare on the night before the case is to be heard and will only meet with the client on the morning of the hearing . |
| 4 | People like me are a menace to the AA men , calling them out on Sunday afternoon to rebuild engines that we idly began to dismantle on Sunday morning . |
| 5 | After half-an-hour of this sort of thing , it suddenly began to dawn on everybody that Mr Clarke had only got to clause one of the actual legislation . |
| 6 | However , it suddenly began to erode as a result of the emergence of a Japanese competitor that managed to produce a product that was not only competitively priced but also of comparable or better quality . |
| 7 | The divan , lifted high at one end by Ludens , suddenly began to rush down the stairs , nearly overturning Jack and making a long scar upon the wallpaper with one of its feet . |
| 8 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 9 | The indications are that he only began to reign in 738 , for an eclipse of the sun , followed by a lunar eclipse , which occurred in January 753 , is described in the eighth-century Northumbrian annals as happening in his fifteenth year , whereas Eadberht 's fifteenth year if he succeeded in 737 would have been 751–2 . |
| 10 | Gide at the end of his life remarked that Wilde only began to live after dark as it were , away from most of those who knew him ( So Be It , 27 ) . |
| 11 | The author of the Anonimalle Chronicle , however , who evidently had some admiration for Gaunt 's achievement , believed that the army only began to suffer in this way when it wintered in Gascony . |
| 12 | The major , striking and henceforth continuous improvement in these conditions only began to occur after the end of our period . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Mr Gittings ' head was obviously beginning to spin from all this toing and froing . |
| 14 | If the fish is to be saved , the abstraction will have to be cut back significantly , at a time when the state is only beginning to emerge from seven years of drought . |
| 15 | The Commission was only beginning to get into its stride in 1970 when a new government was returned which was pledged to the abolition of the commission on the grounds that it ‘ had no place in a free society ’ . |
| 16 | We are only beginning to come to terms with it . |
| 17 | I have to re-affirm the confidence they are only beginning to find in themselves . ’ |
| 18 | All over Britain and Europe , ethnic minorities have suddenly begun to fear for their lives as extreme right-wing parties experience a resurgence of power and support . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't understand why she 's suddenly begun to behave like this . |
| 20 | It had all begun to unravel with Sir Keith Joseph 's Damascus Road conversion in September 1974 , announced during his seminal speech in Preston . |
| 21 | Excavations in its interior demonstrated extensive occupation , which had apparently begun to decline in the AD 70s , perhaps in the wake of increasing migration towards a more convenient centre on the road network . |
| 22 | Free direct thought is deployed to show the conscious workings of the mind of an introspective man , a technique less appropriate for Lok , whose consciousness of self only begins to develop in the course of the action ; narrator 's report of thought act or free indirect thought is used for him . |
| 23 | Queen 's finally began to play in the final quarter , but had only a consolation try from Ireland A out-half Davy Humphreys right on full-time to show for their efforts . |
| 24 | Diaries soon begin to look like this : |
| 25 | Eadberht 's son and successor , Oswulf , perished on 24 July 758 but his successor , Aethelwald Moll , did not begin to reign until 5 August . |
| 26 | You simply can not begin to talk about cooperation with other oppressed groups if the European gay movements are themselves badly organised . |
| 27 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 28 | Following the US launch of UnixWare ( UX No 406 ) , Univel Inc 's European representatives say a revenue stream from this side of the Atlantic will not begin to flow for at least three months . |
| 29 | If the record of those who organised and controlled production is anything like complete , they did not begin to compare with their peers in East Anglia . |
| 30 | A patient may be so anxious that he can not begin to act in a way which would resolve his problems . |