Example sentences of "begins [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere a different bell begins to sound midnight , and from all over town , far and near , other bells join in . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then the ‘ hill ’ of warm water is released , and begins to flow east towards South America . |
| 7 | Catch her , and check her , as she begins to hurl defiance at you ; do n't wait for her to complete her tirade . |
| 8 | When the brain starts signalling production of stress hormones it begins to inhibit sex hormone secretions . ’ |
| 9 | Driven to despair by the people 's weeping he begins to accuse God of laying impossible burdens upon him . |
| 10 | Typing Tutor then begins to provide test sentences which include those problem characters . |
| 11 | The famous scenes of Russians standing in endless line-ups , result from Soviet industry 's inability to produce consumer goods at a rate which begins to meet demand . |
| 12 | You could buy yourself a small luxury each week as a symbolic message to your subconscious , so that it begins to attract money into your life . |
| 13 | Prince slips away as colony begins to accept destiny . |
| 14 | … ( 6 ) In this section ‘ costs ’ means costs as between party and party , and includes the costs of applying for an order under this section ; and where a party begins to receive representation after the proceedings have been instituted , or ceases to receive representation before they are finally decided or otherwise receives representation in connection with part only of the proceedings , the reference in subsection ( 2 ) above to the costs incurred by the unassisted party in the proceedings shall be construed as a reference to so much of those costs as is attributable to that part . |
| 15 | Every reasonably successful band soon begins to receive demo tapes from young hopefuls . |
| 16 | With convulsive shudders , it begins to pump blood into a network of veins within the baggy wings . |
| 17 | In spite of the attempt to introduce earlier maturity by means of the Shorthorn , the Charolais remains a late-maturing breed with the advantage that the animal is heavier before it begins to deposit fat , nor does it need hormones to put more meat on its hindquarters . |
| 18 | In the novels of Queen Victoria 's reign the converse comes to be true : the cottage begins to assume centrality , while the great house dwindles in an ever lengthening perspective . |
| 19 | Indeed , this is the development that begins to combine videoconferencing facilities with online computer network applications , the kind of overlap we foreshadowed in the previous sections of this chapter . |
| 20 | To train an infant for the first year is comparatively easy , but after that the child begins to resent authority , and the conscientious mother has to be prepared to fight and win all along the line , in matters small and great . |
| 21 | If the joint begins to give trouble late in the day and you have a chance of a placing , then consider reapplying the bandage , only this time slightly tighter . |
| 22 | According to the NAS report , it is very hard to work out the level at which a chemical begins to do damage . |
| 23 | In the course of defending Creole against Shane 's objections , Chris actually begins to use Creole , distancing his own talk from that of Shane and putting into practice his own belief that " if you want them to know your culture you have to chat it " . |
| 24 | 17.32 Development in attainment target 3 is marked by : increasing control over the structure and organisation of different types of text ; a growing ability to handle complex or demanding subject matter ; a widening range of syntactic structures and an expanding vocabulary as the pupil begins to use language that is characteristic of writing rather than speech and to strive for a style that is appropriate to the subject matter and the readership ; a growing capacity to write independently and at length ; an increasing proficiency in re-reading and revising or redrafting the text , taking into account the needs of the audience ; a developing ability to reflect on and talk about the writing process . |
| 25 | At 10 degrees off the vertical , shadows and a degree of ‘ depth ’ convey a bird 's eye view impression , and the surrounding activity begins to contribute interest to the photograph . |
| 26 | This begins to face education managers with a fundamental dilemma — are they inside the cage with the teaching profession or are they to be on the outside exercising a more explicit control function than ever before ? |
| 27 | Larner set the figure at 10 per cent , and in his later study , with the process of dispersal having become even more marked , Herman acknowledged that a holding of 5 per cent or more ‘ begins to approach non-negligibility from the standpoint of corporate power ’ . |
| 28 | A second way in which stress begins to subvert home life is through the displacement of feelings of anger . |
| 29 | It 's only a matter of time before he begins to move north , and I have an itch in my sword arm says the time 's running short . ’ |
| 30 | The melody of the Adagio from Dvořák 's ‘ New World ’ Symphony owes its air of peace largely to the static harmony , which begins to move beat by beat only when there is a climax . |