Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report of Domingue and Ingram ( 1978 ) , for the USA , indicates the emergence of the profession both in terms of status and in concerns for interpreter efficiency , and it is on this basis that we begin to look at the processes involved , comparing signed with spoken interpretation . |
| 2 | A closer examination of the component parts of the code is given in chapter 4 , when we begin to look at the implications of the code in respect of standards of nursing care provided by the qualified nurse or health visitor . |
| 3 | I know about the Islington survey , and I also share his concern about under-reporting in some areas of the country of some types of crime in particular , but let me continue with the facts before we begin to look at the solutions . |
| 4 | Second , the opt-out will soon begin to fray at the edges . |
| 5 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 6 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 7 | He was a tall , handsome man in his late thirties with short black hair , which was already beginning to grey at the temples , and a neatly trimmed black moustache . |
| 8 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 9 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 10 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 11 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 12 | The squabbling became more bitter , and the adults began to snap at the children . |
| 13 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 14 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 15 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |