Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " 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 | By 1959 , some of the regime forces were beginning to organize politically outside the limits of FET y de las JONS . |
| 4 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 12 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 16 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 17 | From their small and humble beginnings in tiny weather-board stations to the great climaxes of the massive Auckland and Wellington stations of the 1930s , New Zealand Railways have consistently adopted thoughtful and sensitive approaches , When railway confidence was beginning to wane elsewhere in the world in the 1930s , New Zealand not only built two of the greatest stations in the southern hemisphere , but under the Labour Government of 1936–49 continued to invest in railway 's . |
| 18 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 19 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 20 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |