Example sentences of "[was/were] begin [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " 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 | By 1916 these were beginning to rankle sorely with the men at the front . |
| 3 | Now that Caen had fallen , some of the villagers , were beginning to drift back to their homes . |
| 4 | By 1959 , some of the regime forces were beginning to organize politically outside the limits of FET y de las JONS . |
| 5 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ They were beginning to fire back from behind the station . |
| 8 | The night 's events were beginning to catch up on them . |
| 9 | Evidently the rumours about Zen 's past were beginning to catch up with him . |
| 10 | A way of life , a set of values and attitudes which , according to some social historians did n't emerge until the late 1800's when the British Empire was at its most powerful , when imperialism , nationalism and Toryism were beginning to figure prominently in the language of the pubs and the music halls . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |
| 13 | But then you see the town was on er on er on D C. And they 'd be at that time they they were beginning to change over to A C , the whole country 's A C now . |
| 14 | AN unexpected 1 p.c. rise in manufacturing production in February raised hopes that manufacturers were beginning to climb out of recession and caught economists by surprise yesterday . |
| 15 | The coffee was beginning to sit strangely on him , she had been wise to leave hers more or less untouched . |
| 16 | It was the first event of its kind , and only possible now that traffic was beginning to move again after the restraints of the war . |
| 17 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 18 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 19 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |
| 20 | Apollinaire , on the other hand , although he did not entirely understand the nature of Braque 's new development and failed to realize that even though Braque was beginning to paint largely from memory , his work was still often related directly to his models , instinctively realized that Braque had accomplished something important and original . |
| 21 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 22 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 23 | He was beginning to sound just like Hugh , Robbie thought resentfully , ordering her about . |
| 24 | I was told the fun was beginning to go out of it , but now it is back as the competition for best fancy dress is nearly as tough as the race itself . |
| 25 | We were puttering up river late in the afternoon and the sun was beginning to go down over these huge trees and a flight of big birds , herons or something , were taking off like pink seaplanes as someone said and the second assistant suddenly stood up and yelled out This is paradise , this is fucking paradise . |
| 26 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 27 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 28 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 29 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 30 | Her plan for helping Miss Honey was beginning to form beautifully in her mind . |