Example sentences of "begins [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anteriorly , the mesoderm beneath the headfold becomes organized into the heart ( Figure 1e ) which begins to contract rhythmically towards the end of the 9th day . |
| 2 | Even when the embryo begins to gastrulate , if up to 80 per cent of the cells are killed off with a drug the embryo can regulate and quite normal mice can develop . |
| 3 | A harmless pleasure can become the gateway to nameless hells when for whatever reasons it begins to carry a significant symbolic meaning . |
| 4 | When it begins to sizzle , add the garlic cloves and cook until tender and evenly browned . |
| 5 | Thus bargaining begins to matter when both sides believe that they have a minimal amount of ability to impose their solutions on each other . |
| 6 | The point at which the national curriculum begins to matter is the age of 5 : assessment at each successive stage should in some way affect the ambitions and choices at each age . |
| 7 | Seeking to ensure that people are seen to live in pleasant , ordinary homes , are seen to drive in ordinary vehicles ( not Sunshine buses , for example ) , go on ordinary holidays ( not with large groups of other people who also have handicaps ) , wear attractive clothes , have attractive hairstyles , receive the same kind of support services as other people , and now , with social role valorisation ( Wolfensberger , 1983 ) be seen to have appropriate , valued roles in society ; seeking all this begins to sound dangerously close to a marketing strategy . |
| 8 | Normalisation in this sense begins to sound like superimposing a currently fashionable veneer without any attention to the detail of what lies underneath . |
| 9 | Somewhere a different bell begins to sound midnight , and from all over town , far and near , other bells join in . |
| 10 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 11 | The tyre then begins to slide and scrubs off the excess speed which could n't safely be lost with a more drastic pull on the brake . |
| 12 | And all against the background of what appears to be a historic breakthrough in black South African politics as the cracks in the apartheid edifice widen and the government begins to lose its grip on the affairs of state . |
| 13 | He is still referred to as Thatcherite but as that term begins to lose its currency my own view of him is of a free marketeer with a strong sense of economic realism . |
| 14 | If enough public figures , even characters in books and films , enough of one 's own acquaintances , start jumping off cliffs , cliff-jumping begins to lose its shock value and finally becomes normal . |
| 15 | Within 60 years , the nineteenth-century fascination with the Middle East begins to lose its romantic edge , even for the most mundane travellers . |
| 16 | While giving a pupil a lesson , it is possible to feel the muscles tense in order to maintain balance as he or she begins to lose awareness of the surroundings when ‘ mind-wandering ’ . |
| 17 | Around this time , the scalp 's sebaceous glands start producing less of the oil that provides healthy shine , and hair begins to lose its hue as the production of melanin ( the pigment that also colours skin and eyes ) slows down . |
| 18 | With the onset of summer , the snow starts to melt and the mountain goat begins to lose its thick , shaggy winter coat . |
| 19 | For when what goes without saying , especially the bit about translating thoughts into spoken or written signs and then back again , is actually said , it begins to lose its air of obviousness . |
| 20 | Having gained weight so rapidly , the abandoned pup then begins to lose it as it uses its blubber to develop the organs of its body . |
| 21 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |
| 22 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 23 | If you count fathers as well , as of course you should , it begins to embrace most people . |
| 24 | In these days of digital technology and modular electronics , it 's hard to know where to turn when your blue-speaker AC30 begins to issue smoke , your Copicat starts munching recording tape or your beloved Marshall JTM45 just sits and coughs in the corner . |
| 25 | I mean as soon as it 's clear that the middle peasants are coming under pressure December nineteen forty seven , he begins to issue statements , we must protect the middle peasant and as , as said the , the , the nineteen thirty three class documents are reissued er which make it very clear that , that middle peasants must be protected . |
| 26 | And until the Church begins to acknowledge and address the century in which it now finds itself , it will die . |
| 27 | If you have ever watched a rabbit being pursued by a dog you will notice that whenever the dog gets close , the bunny begins to weave this way and that to confound Fido 's pounce . |
| 28 | Beat in the eggs a little at a time , adding a little flour if it begins to curdle . |
| 29 | Beat in the eggs a little at a time , adding a little flour if it begins to curdle . |
| 30 | Travellers might get used to jet-lag in the sense that they learn to live with it , or they might find it progressively more irksome as their initial excitement with travel begins to wear thin . |