Example sentences of "begin [prep] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can begin by returning to the question of defining your essay topic . |
| 2 | To this end the workshop began by referring to the information leaflet which accompanied the workshop . |
| 3 | SAVE began by writing to the Department of Transport setting out the importance of the park , only to be told that a large number of representations had been made in favour of the proposed route . |
| 4 | Any consideration of the Labour Party concern to change the kind of democracy on offer to the people within a new British constitution has to begin by attending to the battles within the Labour Party and to the resulting changes that have occurred in the constitution of the party . |
| 5 | The presiding ‘ judge ’ begins by referring to the case ( he need not read it out if copies have been made available to the audience ) ; then he says : ‘ I call upon Mr/Miss X ’ ( the leading counsel for the appellant , who sits upon the judge 's left — that is to say , what the judge sees as his left ) . |