Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1916 these were beginning to rankle sorely with the men at the front . |
| 2 | By 1959 , some of the regime forces were beginning to organize politically outside the limits of FET y de las JONS . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |