Example sentences of "[noun] began [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first intimations that the forces which had lain dormant for two centuries would soon be unleashed came in the late 1870s , when frequent minor earthquakes began to shake the areas round the Sunda Straits . |
| 2 | But around 1955 various smart operators in the American and Canadian blasting industry began to see the light . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Halema began to describe the life of the desert djinn who people the underworld . |
| 5 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As the Flamingo moved down the river the wind began to fill the sails . |
| 8 | It was n't long before the pain of loss began to penetrate the anaesthetic of crowds , of other people 's activity . |
| 9 | But by the middle of the twenties , when Ramsey began to study the matter , a new vision appeared . |
| 10 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 11 | For , as the testing progressed , so my life outside of the sessions began to acquire the lineaments of a normalcy I had never felt before . |
| 12 | On the night of 16 March , waters from melting snow began to burst the flood-banks in the Fens . |
| 13 | As a modest beginning to the work of the Communication Research Centre , two or three students in the English Department at U.C.L. began to study the use of language in public communication . |
| 14 | Joe was already out of the kitchen and half-way across the yard and Bella began to put the dishes together . |
| 15 | After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words . |
| 16 | Under his tutelage , the Indians began to demand the rights over their lands which they had been guaranteed by Brazil 's Constitution . |
| 17 | French infantry began to dismantle the barricade . |
| 18 | At the turn of the century William and Dorothy Wordsworth began to extol the beauties of the area . |
| 19 | As British companies began to feel the pinch , it was ad campaigns which felt the finance director 's scalpel first ( the Saatchi-owned , media-buying organisation , Zenith , which bulk-buys TV slots predicts a real-term fall of 3.5% in revenues over the next year ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Parish councillors were forced into making a quick decision when the gypsies began to occupy the football field . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Riding on again , down the road which they thought would be the easiest route to the Fire Court , Fenella began to have the feeling that the twisty Tree stumps were not Tree stumps at all , but horrid , stunted living things and that malicious ancient eyes looked out from their depths . |
| 24 | A ministerial meeting in Venice agreed to this and in June work began to draft the treaties . |
| 25 | Whatever the cause , many institutes began to drop the word from their title , and turned themselves into clubs . |
| 26 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 27 | Trumpets sounded , press-men hoisted their notebooks and their Kodaks , and cinema newshounds began to crank the handles of their cameras . |
| 28 | Radical voices in developing countries began to accuse the West of plotting to keep down the numbers in the Third World so as to maintain their own privileged position . |
| 29 | The Sun began to warm the bones . |
| 30 | A smell of toast began to infiltrate the paint smell that was a perpetual consequence of their attempts to make the place habitable . |