Example sentences of "have begin [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping .
2 Increased environmental awareness has begun to reveal the physical impact of encouraging private modes of transport .
3 WORK has begun to convert the ruined Gothic Rockhall Cottage at the Roaches into a climbing hut to commemorate the life and climbs of Don Whillans .
4 Moreover , as with studies of resource allocation and budgeting in households containing young children ( Graham , 1987a , 1987b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a ) , research has begun to uncover the unequal ways in which these pressures are experienced within care-giving households , with carers lowering their own standards of living in order to safeguard the needs of the person receiving care .
5 The federal prosecutor for crimes of terror and extremism , Alexander von Stahl , has begun to investigate the right-wing kind , albeit belatedly .
6 Now a new study has begun to understand the potential threat of volcano-related earth tremors to future offshore platforms .
7 The larger Fender headstock is adorned with F-stamped Kluson enclosed machines , these having begun to replace the original Kluson fitments from 1967 .
8 Just as my tankman , when we had smoked our cigarettes must have begun to realise the horrendous trauma he had just been through — so , upon reaching home and spreading the news — I too began to dwell upon that single notorious word .
9 ‘ Academic respectability ’ prevailed and courses which might have begun to address the key question — what skills and expertise are crucial to the art of teaching and how can these best be learned and applied ? — were never developed .
10 Then , just as we had begun to enjoy the blissful peace and calm of spring , the wedding season reached its climax .
11 By the end of the 1930s , however , the economic elite had begun to recolonise the political institutions created in the Depression .
12 The delay proved wise , since in the meantime pressure of world events had begun to draw the two sides closer together again .
13 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 .
14 This was especially noticeable amongst younger Conservatives in the Commons , and amongst the life peers who had begun to join the Upper House in increasing numbers since the Life Peerages Act in 1958 .
15 It was only then that evil men had begun to disturb the ancient arrangements which had the stamp of Gregory 's authority .
16 By the 1990s the change to the meritocrats had begun to affect the highest levels of the party .
17 In the meantime , Castro had begun to jettison the middle class and to cultivate support among the peasantry , workers and students through the use of nationalistic and class appeals .
18 Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 .
19 His output in these later years shows that he made every effort to adapt to changing economic circumstances : Austria was then at war with the Ottoman Empire , and the war effort had begun to drain the financial resources of the upper-class patrons on whose support Mozart relied .
20 After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all .
21 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 .
22 The man at the base of the tree had begun to operate the electric felling-saw even before the other one began to descend .
23 From the point of view of consumers of produce grown by slave labour the advantage was going to be equally clear ; supplies of cotton from free-labour sources had begun to enter the British market and were substantially effective in reducing prices .
24 Then I would find that the grass had carpeted the rubble and the bushes had begun to climb the torn traffic lights .
25 In the USA , at the beginning of the century , the universities were also closer to seminaries , but by the 1870s they had begun to adopt the German model too , following the lead given by the new Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , the first to emphasize research in alliance with teaching .
26 By 1988 we had begun to adopt the double stapling technique for ileoanal anastomosis ( anal transection with a transverse linear stapler : RL30 ( Ethicon ) and the end to end circular stapler with detachable anvil : CEEA ( Autosuture ) ) , incorporating a stapling technique ( linear staple cutter PLC 75 ( Ehicon ) ) for pouch construction .
27 Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest .
28 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 .
29 There is evidence that the same trends have begun to permeate the private sector .
30 Yet it is only in the past decade that biologists have begun to appreciate the real extent of it .
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