Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] beginning to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fear that the courts sorely missed assistance from academic lawyers specialising in this branch of the law ; but the law faculties in our universities were only beginning to be established towards the end of the 19th century . |
| 2 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 3 | Although the stark trees were just beginning to be in leaf , and familiarity had lessened the menacing air of the place , Theda still found herself uncomfortable within it . |
| 4 | We know , however , that preliminary rumbles of the Hercynian orogeny were already beginning to be heard at the end of Dinantian times . |
| 5 | Vegetables were now beginning to be used as an integral part of the diet . |
| 6 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |