Example sentences of "and had begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During Edward 's short reign , England had grown much closer to continental Protestantism and had begun to embrace the nascent Protestant internationalism being fostered by Calvin at Geneva . |
| 2 | I indicated a possible line of enquiry that would have been much more fruitful had he pursued it more vigorously and had begun to examine the role of fixed capital in the cyclical process . |
| 3 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 4 | Then , in 1210 , after Otto had revived the old imperial policies in Italy and had begun to oppress the Church , Innocent turned once more to Philip Augustus . |
| 5 | Now that they knew he would be leaving , the literary confraternity had already started to turn their backs on him , and had begun to scan the possible replacements in the current British intellectual mafia . |
| 6 | By the time he returned home , he had already passed beyond the position of Lyell and Forbes and had begun to investigate the possibility that species might actually be modified when exposed to a new environment . |