Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deprived of the fertilisers so essential to the poor soil , German farms were beginning to conform to the law of diminishing returns . |
| 2 | And and er and there er I began to learn what the what what things were beginning to happen in the coal fields . |
| 3 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 4 | The scenery was fascinating ; mountains were beginning to appear in the distance , beckoning to her with a blue , misty enchantment , to which she responded with a longing she could n't believe she possessed . |
| 5 | The qualities of independence , singularity of viewpoint , and readiness to move far afield in pursuit of his inner wishes ( a characteristic of his father 's early career ) were beginning to appear in the son . |
| 6 | Handfuls of sleet were beginning to wander through the air . |
| 7 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 8 | Most certainly these were the sections of the working class who were beginning to benefit from the trend towards paid holidays , which was eventually formalized , after the Amulree Report , and the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938 . |
| 9 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 10 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 11 | By indulging in such policies , Professor Beer has contended , government was beginning to move in the direction of a managed economy . |
| 12 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 13 | She was beginning to respond to the tenderness of his fingers playing up and down her spine . |
| 14 | By the time he wrote the survey quoted above , evolutionary morphology was beginning to fall into the background as new sciences such as genetics took over the forefront of scientific research . |
| 15 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 16 | But as the romance , continued to drag on , there were signs the story was wearing thin , especially for Jason , who was beginning to tire of the facade . |
| 17 | But Dufferin , now married to his cousin , Lindy Guinness , was beginning to tire of the avant-garde , and in 1972 , when the lease ran out , the gallery closed , with a stylish party at The Savoy . |
| 18 | Like the Spanish , the Portuguese had not made new acquisitions since the great days of the sixteenth century , and they had lost their possessions in the Spice Islands , but Brazil continued to flourish and was beginning to emerge as the world 's main source of gold . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's gone wrong ? ’ he said , looking from Lucy to the rising commotion that was beginning to emerge from the restaurant behind her . |
| 20 | When she woke the little room was still quiet , but the sun had moved from the window and was beginning to dip behind the hillside , the cypresses casting long shadows over the tailored lawns . |
| 21 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 22 | Now smoke was beginning to filter through the hole and round the edges of the door itself . |
| 23 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 24 | There were lesbian nuances I did n't much like ; perhaps because I was beginning to take against the facet in Conchis 's polyhedral character that obviously enjoyed ‘ curious ’ objects and literature . |
| 25 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |
| 26 | Just as the family was beginning to get over the tragedy , Dawn 's older sister , Sheila , 6 , vanished from home and was found the next day , drowned in a canal . |
| 27 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |
| 28 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 29 | When Seb was beginning to worry about the task , Carrie arrived at the farm , carried there on the back of a horse ridden by her father . |
| 30 | Even Serrano was beginning to toy with the idea of a monarchist restoration , albeit under Falangist tutelage . |