Example sentences of "begin [verb] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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1 | So we begin to put pressure on the child , and the child reacts because he ca n't appreciate what we 're trying to get across to him , and so we get a sort of stalemate situation , where the teacher , be it a professional teacher or a parent , is pressurizing the child to understand something which appears quite simplistic , and the child is responding quite deadly , because he can not focus , he can not conceptualize , what is to us a very simple concept . |
2 | By the late nineteenth century , like other British reds , the breed began to find favour on the ranches of western America , especially where cattle were rail-trucked , in which circumstances horns were a definite nuisance . |
3 | After the interval , with the wind and slope in the home team 's favour , they began to put pressure on the Haslemere defence and scored two well-taken goals in a 15-minute spell . |
4 | The Serbian Party is also beginning to put pressure on the press in other republics , especially in Slovenia and Croatia . |
5 | While continuing a policy of pushing up rents , the Government began to curtail expenditure on the housing benefit scheme , and by 1987–8 the numbers claiming rent rebates had fallen to 3.7 million , and those claiming rate rebates to 7.1 million . |
6 | In the United States , for example , people began to pay tax on the first slice of their income at 14 per cent , then 16 per cent for the next band , and so on . |
7 | The newly formed Requalification Group began exerting pressure on the Bulgarians who finally committed some resources to this work . |
8 | These restrictions on funding over the decade have begun to put pressure on the relatively well-developed education system . |