Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Malekith befriends the Dwarf King Snorri Whitebeard and together the armies of Dwarfs and Elves begin to drive the remnants of Chaos from the lands .
2 Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture .
3 Though the antecedents are ancient , it was not until the 1960s that one could begin to see the beginnings of what we now call global competition in other than oil and similar natural resource-processing industries .
4 Even if you open your account with just a few pounds , you can immediately begin to enjoy the benefits of a good rate of interest .
5 Gradually she might begin to connect the consequences of her attitude .
6 I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life .
7 If the title 's already registered , then as either seller or buyer you begin to reap the benefits of the system .
8 Assumptions and practices changed , with far greater hope now reposing in a massive addition to the housing stock in order to at least begin to tackle the problems of overcrowding and health .
9 When the working people in this country — whose only national newspaper , USA Today , reduces all its non-cold war international news to an eighth-of-a-page column called ‘ Elsewhere in the world ’ — begin to discuss the issues of international capitalist exploitation , it 's not surprising that the media portray the strike as some petty industrial dispute in the backwoods of the Appalachians .
10 Only through such discussions can we begin to probe the ways in which a satisfying and total response gradually emerges .
11 That is all the more reason , they believe , for keeping their crusade going , so that a wider public will react positively and begin to recognise the indicators of abuse .
12 We could on this basis begin to question the lives of many people which we would subjectively consider to be less fulfilling than our own .
13 The promise that the poorest will be protected by adjustments to their income support levels just does n't begin to address the problems of the seven million British households who are already suffering from fuel poverty and unable adequately to heat their homes .
14 This way , she 'll begin to understand the basics of sharing , although she wo n't do it very willingly until she 's around 2½ to three years old .
15 After having some Alexander lessons , you will begin to understand the principles of ‘ inhibition ’ and ‘ direction ’ .
16 Too heavy a reliance on a particular firm or industry might lead to lack of balance in research output — fundamental research without an immediate pay-off may be pushed out , and there is also a danger that commercial pressures may begin to dictate the courses on offer .
17 If there are no goods in the shops ; or if food can only be obtained by rationing ; or if the state siphons off the lion 's share of increased earnings as taxation ; or if an economy seems incapable of growing , then people begin to question the fundamentals on which such a system is built .
18 It is at this stage that they begin to appreciate the fruits of their labours .
19 But , if you are one of those people who has to read a great deal — in connection with your job or because you are studying — then you will soon begin to appreciate the benefits of being able to read more quickly .
20 They would begin to appreciate the problems of daily life in the past without modern labour-saving equipment , and appreciate just how long it took to do even simple tasks .
21 If reading is complex , so also is writing ; and when we come to the mystery of literary composition , we can scarcely begin to explain the operations of the creative mind which result in a sequence of words on the written page .
22 As for the first , disclosure is costly , and at some point the costs begin to outweigh the benefits of increased disclosure .
23 The idea of a youth employment service , however , did not figure prominently as a solution to the problem , probably because social scientists did not begin to examine the possibilities of labour exchanges until after 1905 .
24 This pattern included a reduction in the number of manufacturing establishments employing ten or more people ; it is here that we can begin to visualize the effects of de-industrialization on the ground .
25 In addition as the gap between the possible and the affordable becomes ever wider and societies grapple with the conflict between individual need and the collective good , the outcomes movement can at least inform the debate and as the Oregon experiment shows , begin to democratise the values on which choices are made .
26 Begin to feel the energies around you .
27 It is of course very difficult for the eye to register detail when it is not trained to look for it ; it is only when true students of the Gothic , like the elder Pugin , begin to distinguish the styles of different periods , that the buildings of the past really come into focus in the novel .
28 I began to see the dangers of overcrowding , over-invention .
29 But as they began to see the possibilities of the data highway , they also realised that they did not have the technical expertise to build the sorts of switched networks necessary to bring it off .
30 Now , as she cautiously peered behind , she began to see the shadows in the trees , the gaunt and sinewy shapes of the mythagos which followed them , darting from shadow place to shadow place .
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