Example sentences of "[adv] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 2 | The implications of this approach for advertising personnel are considerable , and the best way to grasp what this means is to examine who works in advertising , and so begin to understand the hierarchy or power structures . |
| 3 | You will feel clumsy and inept at most of the manual skills for at least a year , ; confidence and speed will only begin to appear the second or third time round . |
| 4 | Maha tried to join them but was cast out and good-humouredly began to push the loaded craft into the water . |
| 5 | It suddenly began to close the distance between them and Chrissie felt her heart beat increasing to an almost violent rate . |
| 6 | When he did wake , Moran reached his hand across to the coarse shirt over the shoulder and gently began to knead the muscles . |
| 7 | We are only beginning to realize the significance of stone . |
| 8 | The UK is only beginning to realise the potential of partnerships ; education has been shy to join hands with business and vice versa , but it has to happen . |
| 9 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 10 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 11 | I think we are perhaps beginning to find the conventional notions of convenience and comfort , of enjoyment and entertainment , inadequate . |
| 12 | The few experiences of community education , linking formal with non-formal methods such as the bi-lingual education in Scotland , have only begun to demonstrate the validity of a community orientated approach to learning . |
| 13 | Their ability not only to begin to understand the nature of their alienation but to learn to do something about it is also enhanced by the development of automation . |
| 14 | We soon begin to see the double-voiced nature of this supposedly ‘ useless ’ discourse . |
| 15 | The morning is brilliant and we soon begin to pass the all-night paddlers . |
| 16 | It would not be so attractive to many of the professional golfers in the field of nearly 150 who would shortly begin to contest the World Wide Insurance Golf Championship . |
| 17 | Many investment trusts will finally begin to feel the impact of an estimated 1% fall in dividends in 1992 . |
| 18 | If reading is complex , so also is writing ; and when we come to the mystery of literary composition , we can scarcely begin to explain the operations of the creative mind which result in a sequence of words on the written page . |
| 19 | We can best begin to sketch the positive characteristics of this activity by reversing the usual procedures . |
| 20 | But , if you are one of those people who has to read a great deal — in connection with your job or because you are studying — then you will soon begin to appreciate the benefits of being able to read more quickly . |
| 21 | If you practise it for just ten minutes each day , you will soon begin to notice the difference : |
| 22 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 23 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 24 | But , in Britain , it was election year , and , in America , President Johnson was only just beginning to grasp the reins of power after Kennedy 's assassination , and so little political progress was made . |
| 25 | The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse . |
| 26 | However , to say this to a country which is only just beginning to enjoy the benefits of industrialisation is not easy . |
| 27 | This aspect of evaluation is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves . |
| 28 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 29 | Even Xerox 's Ventura , which is the closest thing yet to TechDoc in a desktop publishing package , is only just beginning to tackle the problem of networking . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're only just beginning to open the door ’ Matthews said . |