Example sentences of "[is] begin [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ . |
| 2 | The present England shirt costs about £24.99 for a full-sized fan , but the little number that saw us through ( and its red going-away alternative ) is beginning to reek from all those coach trips , nights spent in railway stations and sweaty terrace pens . |
| 3 | This is beginning to happen through the exhortation as well as education received from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace . |
| 4 | Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham . |
| 5 | When The Marriage of Figaro begins , the count has been married to Rosina for several years , and is beginning to tire of her . |
| 6 | There 's not much of anything in Albania , but foreign aid is beginning to arrive as European governments urge stablity in the region . |
| 7 | Agreement on the actions needed is beginning to emerge from these recent meetings of politicians , administrators and scientists . |
| 8 | The importance of the quality of this experience is beginning to emerge from a number of recent studies , which show that differences in language use by adults are significantly associated with variation in their children 's rate of development ( see Wells and Robinson , 1982 , for a review ) . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ he replied evenly , ‘ but my clothes are so wet my skin is beginning to take in water . |
| 10 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ he said , ‘ Smithfield market is beginning to stir at four in the morning . |
| 11 | ‘ More importantly the Yarm Road industrial estate is beginning to snowball as a location for hi-tec businesses and facilities . ’ |
| 12 | At 30 , McEnroe is beginning to incline towards nostalgia , even though he leaves himself with little time to indulge in the luxury . |
| 13 | The Ottawa , Ontario company looks as if it is beginning to falter by reporting second quarter losses of $1.1m on turnover down by 2% at $30m . |
| 14 | While Computer 2000 AG fumes over the potential implications of the Polish government 's decision to waive duty on the imports of local assemblers ( CI No 2,140 ) , indications are emerging that the company 's six-month-old operation in Hungary is beginning to perform after a troubled start . |
| 15 | He may need to do a bit of work on the accent , but McIntosh is beginning to sound like a natural Scottish no.8 . |
| 16 | Now this is beginning to sound like Sesame Street ! |
| 17 | One is beginning to sound like Big Ben . |
| 18 | Other comparable UK initiatives are taking place : the Royal Society of Arts is sponsoring a Higher Education for Capability programme ; the National Council for Vocational Qualifications , with its ideas on a competency based curriculum , is beginning to turn to higher education ; and the Council for Industry and Higher Education talks of developing the students ' personal transferable skills . |
| 19 | Above us the sky is beginning to turn from black to purple , and the walls of the canyon are faintly visible as immense dark shapes looming overhead . |
| 20 | That , which is er a infection ca characterized by this profuse athema of th the base of the neck , referred to as bull neck if you look inside this child 's er pharynx you see this very messy inflammatory process at the back and the whole of the respiratory mucosa is beginning to detach in what 's referred to as a pseudo-membrane . |
| 21 | Modern scholarship is beginning to bring to attention traditions of piety , particularly that of women , in Europe from the twelfth century onwards , which are significant for the understanding of medieval English mysticism . |
| 22 | A welding machine designed and produced by jua kalis is beginning to compete with the conventional , imported Japanese product . |
| 23 | Physiological disorders , like cancer in humans and animals ( according to the present state and progress in scientific knowledge and understanding ) , are not diseases caused by other life forms like bacteria , bacilli , fungus or virus ( although cancer opinion is beginning to waver with regard to virus ) . |
| 24 | The A34 just south of Newbury is still down to a single lane due to the roadworks there , between the Swan roundabout and Sandalford roundabout and the A41 London road in Bicester has roadworks by the level crossing , temporary traffic lights there , expect some congestion which is reasonably bad at the moment , but it is beginning to clear in both directions . |
| 25 | Fortunately , the situation is beginning to change as allied disciplines like machine intelligence provide us with models that will allow us to construct theories that are both realistic and have heuristic power . |
| 26 | And even this is beginning to change with programs like Soft PC and the add-in hardware products that give the Macintosh direct PC compatibility . |
| 27 | If all this is beginning to smack of soap box journalism , it is more focused than that . |
| 28 | British merchants , who had exploited the incapacity of the old-established monopolists of Cadiz and Seville to supply Spain 's American Empire with goods , professed alarm at ‘ the commercial spirit which is beginning to prevail in the Spanish nation ’ . |
| 29 | With the new Polish Government actively considering large-scale privatisation , much attention is beginning to focus on a proposal favoured by both sides of the political fence in Britain . |
| 30 | Now that the major aspects of the InsP 3 -calcium signalling pathway have been mapped out , attention is beginning to focus on its role in specific cellular responses . |