Example sentences of "[was/were] begin [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 2 | Now that Caen had fallen , some of the villagers , were beginning to drift back to their homes . |
| 3 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 4 | They were beginning to lay down a sound that would later become synonymous with The Wedding Present , but it missed the energy of what would come later . |
| 5 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 6 | However , now that they had family responsibilities and were beginning to put down roots , they returned to their former church-going . |
| 7 | It was late in the afternoon , almost evening by now , and the restaurants were beginning to fill up as people emerged from their siestas and began to promenade the streets . |
| 8 | By the time 1970 dawned , the closures were beginning to slow down . |
| 9 | The 1980s had left us both with spreading waist-lines and a feeling that we were beginning to slow down . |
| 10 | The men were beginning to slow down . |
| 11 | But it was an axiom of mid-nineteenth-century employers that wages must be kept as low as possible , though intelligent entrepreneurs with international experience , like Thomas Brassey , the railway builder , were beginning to point out that the labour of the well-paid British workman was in fact cheaper than that of the abysmally paid coolie , because his productivity was so much higher . |
| 12 | Hundreds of funeral guests were beginning to filter in on foot from the outlying corners of the kingdom , bringing sacrificial fighting cocks , pigs and magnificently decked-out water-buffalo . |
| 13 | The doubts were beginning to mount up alarmingly . |
| 14 | Previous UN appeals on Liberia 's behalf had yielded little [ see p. 37946 ] , but some non-governmental relief organizations were beginning to set up teams in Monrovia towards the end of January . |
| 15 | Then I undressed her , and dressed her up in her own clothes , she acquiescent as a little child , talking all the time about the snowdrops , and how the days were beginning to draw out — and everything except people , and the circumstances in which we found ourselves . |
| 16 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 17 | According to close friends , Green issues were beginning to take over her life in a very big way . |
| 18 | The pain and torment were beginning to take over my life . |
| 19 | His responsibilities in Africa ended in 1962 and he moved to take control of the group 's European operations which were beginning to take off . |
| 20 | The contents of his hip flask were beginning to wear off . |
| 21 | The after-effects of a severe bout of glandular fever were beginning to linger on far too long for Virginia 's liking . |
| 22 | ‘ They were beginning to fire back from behind the station . |
| 23 | The night 's events were beginning to catch up on them . |
| 24 | Evidently the rumours about Zen 's past were beginning to catch up with him . |
| 25 | Countrywatch 's efforts were beginning to pay off . |
| 26 | The first birds were beginning to tune up . |
| 27 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 28 | Exports of traditional " smallware " metal goods was increasing , while alongside them metal wares of a new kind , including machinery and steam engines , were beginning to show up , although by 1820 the value of this last group was still only £250,000 . |
| 29 | A girl who looked younger than her twenty-four years , lightly tanned and healthy , although the faint marks caused by a string of sleepless nights were beginning to appear around her eyes . |
| 30 | The adults were beginning to get out of hand : some were dancing , having a ‘ knees up ’ ; others were arguing with the organ grinder about what should be played . |