Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
| 2 | The war had brought extra responsibilities to the village constable and now they were beginning to show in the tired lines on his face . |
| 3 | The vastly-experienced trio of Francis , Anderson and Waddle — with 105 years and four European Cup finals between them — were beginning to revel in the huge open spaces left by their part-time opponents . |
| 4 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 5 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 6 | The train was beginning to slow for the next station . |
| 7 | Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period . |
| 8 | Her head was beginning to throb from the smoky , claustrophobic atmosphere , and she wondered how she could tactfully drop a few hints about leaving without inviting a tirade of displeasure from André , which was the last thing she felt she could cope with . |
| 9 | The air was beginning to blush with the first , reassuring glow of the mounting sun , and the breeze that had tossed Dulé and his companions in the pirogues was freshening . |
| 10 | At least a little more flexibility was beginning to emanate from the British Foreign Office over the question of the Suez base . |
| 11 | Our earlier discussion had reached a satisfactory breaking-off point and his attention was beginning to wander to the outer office where pandemonium was on the point of breaking out . |