Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tourism as such did not begin to flourish until the end of the 18th century . |
| 2 | What these differences between the two halves of the brain might be telling us , we had no idea at the time — but some clues will begin to appear by the end of the next chapter . |
| 3 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 4 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 5 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 6 | They were united in the implementation of sanctions against Iraq after the latter 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , but differing positions began to emerge by the end of the year [ see p. 37927 ; 37934 ] and the French government 's 11-hour attempt to avoid conflict was made without consultation with its EC counterparts [ see p. 37935 ] . |
| 7 | It was the Church , and more specifically the papacy , as Ullmann pointed out , that from the mid-eighth century kept the Roman law alive in the West by its own transmission and absorption of Roman law and Roman law principles of government , and in particular in the imperial idea which the papacy began to foster from the end of that century . |
| 8 | These changes , which were just beginning to develop at the end of Marx 's life have thrown into question much of this original Marxist theory and account for the modern debate about whether or not the capitalist state is always ( or ever ) an instrument which defends the interests of the ruling class in a repressive way . |
| 9 | Concern about the employment effects of new technology began to re-emerge at the end of the 1970s . |
| 10 | Their dominance outside the Americas grew into a world supremacy which reached a climax at the beginning of the first world war and began to crumble before the end of the second . |
| 11 | He began to move towards the end of the bar where Jacko Roberts was drinking alone . |
| 12 | The major , striking and henceforth continuous improvement in these conditions only began to occur after the end of our period . |
| 13 | And Minton , like Hopkin , traduced by myth , may likewise have begun to feel by the end of his life that this was the only thing in him , too , that remained inviolate . |