Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deprived of the fertilisers so essential to the poor soil , German farms were beginning to conform to the law of diminishing returns . |
| 2 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
| 3 | And and er and there er I began to learn what the what what things were beginning to happen in the coal fields . |
| 4 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 5 | The war had brought extra responsibilities to the village constable and now they were beginning to show in the tired lines on his face . |
| 6 | The qualities of independence , singularity of viewpoint , and readiness to move far afield in pursuit of his inner wishes ( a characteristic of his father 's early career ) were beginning to appear in the son . |
| 7 | The scenery was fascinating ; mountains were beginning to appear in the distance , beckoning to her with a blue , misty enchantment , to which she responded with a longing she could n't believe she possessed . |
| 8 | Handfuls of sleet were beginning to wander through the air . |
| 9 | The vastly-experienced trio of Francis , Anderson and Waddle — with 105 years and four European Cup finals between them — were beginning to revel in the huge open spaces left by their part-time opponents . |
| 10 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 11 | Most certainly these were the sections of the working class who were beginning to benefit from the trend towards paid holidays , which was eventually formalized , after the Amulree Report , and the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938 . |
| 12 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 13 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 14 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 15 | Henry III 's heart might , literally , be in Anjou , but ‘ by the end of his reign [ he ] was indisputably an English king and men were beginning to think of the Plantagenets as an English dynasty ’ . |
| 16 | By indulging in such policies , Professor Beer has contended , government was beginning to move in the direction of a managed economy . |
| 17 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 18 | She was beginning to respond to the tenderness of his fingers playing up and down her spine . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 21 | By the time he wrote the survey quoted above , evolutionary morphology was beginning to fall into the background as new sciences such as genetics took over the forefront of scientific research . |
| 22 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 23 | The train was beginning to slow for the next station . |
| 24 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 25 | But as the romance , continued to drag on , there were signs the story was wearing thin , especially for Jason , who was beginning to tire of the facade . |
| 26 | But Dufferin , now married to his cousin , Lindy Guinness , was beginning to tire of the avant-garde , and in 1972 , when the lease ran out , the gallery closed , with a stylish party at The Savoy . |
| 27 | She was beginning to tire on the stairs . |
| 28 | Like the Spanish , the Portuguese had not made new acquisitions since the great days of the sixteenth century , and they had lost their possessions in the Spice Islands , but Brazil continued to flourish and was beginning to emerge as the world 's main source of gold . |
| 29 | ‘ What 's gone wrong ? ’ he said , looking from Lucy to the rising commotion that was beginning to emerge from the restaurant behind her . |
| 30 | When she woke the little room was still quiet , but the sun had moved from the window and was beginning to dip behind the hillside , the cypresses casting long shadows over the tailored lawns . |