Example sentences of "[noun sg] begin [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales in excess of this figure begin to produce a profit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The sun dropped below the horizon , the minutes ticked by and an involuntary bivouac began to seem a possibility . |
| 4 | The RAF 's V Force began to play a modest , but significant , role in the Western deterrent . |
| 5 | But around 1955 various smart operators in the American and Canadian blasting industry began to see the light . |
| 6 | Soon after the Falklands War the Department of Trade and Industry began to build a small strategic stockpile of its own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As the Flamingo moved down the river the wind began to fill the sails . |
| 11 | It was n't long before the pain of loss began to penetrate the anaesthetic of crowds , of other people 's activity . |
| 12 | Whenever he had leisure after that Paul worked on it ; but the Professor began to show a marked desire for his company , and took him with him to other houses where he would hear interesting talk of the kind that stimulated him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Almost immediately the new coalition began to question the criminal law approach to moral problems . |
| 15 | In time , and under the influence of Sir Donald Cameron , a man of obscure origin and exceptional ability who had known the delights neither of DO-hood nor of public school , Indirect Rule began to acquire a less exotic coloration and a less inward-looking character than it had had in its glorious beginnings in Northern Nigeria . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Then she stiffened , a startled gasp escaping her lips when his mouth began to string a row of tiny moist kisses down the side of her throat . |
| 18 | On the night of 16 March , waters from melting snow began to burst the flood-banks in the Fens . |
| 19 | Dot began to eat a little more each day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the weather changes , the boat begins to roll a little , and the tables in the bar resume their metallic conversation . |
| 22 | Beyond the Pleasure Principle ( 1920 ) was the first attempt to begin to formulate the notion of the death instincts . |
| 23 | While BT can be pleased that it bought into McCaw at a much lower price than today 's going rate and that it will be difficult for other overseas companies to enter the US domestic market , it will be some time before its investment begins to yield a return . |
| 24 | Not only did the County Council begin to prepare a major case against Hinkley C , but every detail , from the new roads to the siting of a proposed workers ' hostel , was back in the melting pot . |
| 25 | We compare minor skin abrasions , and tell and retell our experiences until those brief moments of panic begin to assume the glow of adventure . |
| 26 | It was not long before the Joint Committee began to starve the NGC and associated radical elements of financial support , while fostering rival groups and individuals . |
| 27 | For the first time since the war began , Americans at home began to feel a personal link with one of the great land battles of the Western Front . |
| 28 | Across the landscape the castles emerged , new French styles of architecture began to affect the parish churches , the great abbey of St Martin de Bello ( Battle ) started to rise on the site of Harold 's defeat at Senlac , and a new cathedral grew in Chichester . |
| 29 | A ministerial meeting in Venice agreed to this and in June work began to draft the treaties . |
| 30 | Early Christian work began to influence the architectural style in the new Christian Roman Empire . |