Example sentences of "[noun] begins [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 2 | As you know , blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around . |
| 3 | Domestic organic rubbish is slightly heated with an added chemical and as it decomposes liquid organic fertiliser begins bleeding into the soil . |
| 4 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 5 | In such circumstances the costs are carried forward and amortised over a period not exceeding five years commencing when the group begins to benefit from the expenditure . |
| 6 | The time when the body begins to warm from the drink and the mind mellows . |
| 7 | As community education begins to work through the community then the colleges ( or any other resource of this nature ) should recede even further . |
| 8 | Inside the vine the sap begins to withdraw to the roots . |
| 9 | As the sap begins to climb into the vine , dormant buds start shooting : this is the signal to prune . |
| 10 | As one tank approaches the top of the incline , the other begins to descend into the water at the lower level . |
| 11 | ( At this point La Hanley 's sprog begins whining in the background ) … yes , be with you shortly , poppet . |
| 12 | ‘ He likes the smell of dust in the office , and the smell of clean white shirts as the sweat begins to come through the armpits . ’ |
| 13 | He likes the smell of dust in the office , and the smell of clean white shirts as the sweat begins to come through the armpits . |
| 14 | At a depth of about 100km melting begins to occur along the edge of the subducted lithosphere and heat begins to be transferred upwards by rising pockets of magma . |
| 15 | Once NAB begins to move into the consideration of this area , it will have to co-ordinate its planning closely with that of the Advisory Committee on the Supply and Education of Teachers . |
| 16 | When tissue begins to react to the commensals causing inflammation , the process of colonisation has given way to infection . |
| 17 | This last instance of the stylistics of manner begins to merge into the stylistics of embellishment , self-reference or representation . |
| 18 | This same tiny movement also appears when Vera begins to dance with the Tutor , but her movement is not so intense . |
| 19 | Alcohol begins to get into the blood less than one hour after drinking begins . |
| 20 | Within four or five minutes , yet seeming like an eternity , the line begins to peel off the open spool , slowly at first but beginning to pick up momentum as each second passes . |
| 21 | As it reaches the end of these , it automatically switches into record mode and the new shot begins to go onto the tape . |
| 22 | The response time between the instant at which the operator strikes a key and that at which the reply from the system begins to appear on the screen should be less than one second . |
| 23 | Response times will be measured from the instant the operator strikes a key to the instant the reply from the system begins to appear on the screen . |
| 24 | After 4–7 days most of the sugars have been turned into alcohol and the yeast begins to sink to the bottom of the vessel . |
| 25 | Thick sheets of paper — 300lb or greater — will dry before the sheet begins to buckle from the water and thus do not require stretching . |
| 26 | The fierce public rivalry between IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp begins to look like the posturing of all-in wrestlers that do it all for show : according to Computer Reseller News , IBM is quietly working with the Redmond dominator to put Windows NT up on the PowerPC RISC . |
| 27 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 28 | At low frequencies Brownian motion can relieve the deformation caused by the stress before the next cycle takes place , but as the frequency increases the conformational change begins to lag behind the stress and energy is not only dissipated but stored as well . |
| 29 | Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain . |
| 30 | Around one in every 100 women run the risk of an ectopic pregnancy — where the embryo begins to develop outside the uterus , usually in the Fallopian tubes . |