Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 2 | Now that Caen had fallen , some of the villagers , were beginning to drift back to their homes . |
| 3 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 4 | Hundreds of funeral guests were beginning to filter in on foot from the outlying corners of the kingdom , bringing sacrificial fighting cocks , pigs and magnificently decked-out water-buffalo . |
| 5 | ‘ They were beginning to fire back from behind the station . |
| 6 | The night 's events were beginning to catch up on them . |
| 7 | Evidently the rumours about Zen 's past were beginning to catch up with him . |
| 8 | The adults were beginning to get out of hand : some were dancing , having a ‘ knees up ’ ; others were arguing with the organ grinder about what should be played . |
| 9 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |
| 10 | But then you see the town was on er on er on D C. And they 'd be at that time they they were beginning to change over to A C , the whole country 's A C now . |
| 11 | AN unexpected 1 p.c. rise in manufacturing production in February raised hopes that manufacturers were beginning to climb out of recession and caught economists by surprise yesterday . |
| 12 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 13 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 14 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 15 | I was told the fun was beginning to go out of it , but now it is back as the competition for best fancy dress is nearly as tough as the race itself . |
| 16 | We were puttering up river late in the afternoon and the sun was beginning to go down over these huge trees and a flight of big birds , herons or something , were taking off like pink seaplanes as someone said and the second assistant suddenly stood up and yelled out This is paradise , this is fucking paradise . |
| 17 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 18 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 19 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 20 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 21 | When she was beginning to cry out for him , while he still hovered over her , taunting her with the prospect of even now being denied what she had at first fought against , he demanded her verbal surrender too . |
| 22 | It was an interesting time to be at the centre , for news was beginning to get through from Burma and plans for reconstruction after liberation were being drawn up . |
| 23 | Angie Bowie : ‘ Mary an I got on really well — we had a hoot and always enjoyed each other 's company , and although the Arts Lab was still running , it was beginning to get out of hand . |
| 24 | The whole situation was beginning to get out of hand . |
| 25 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 26 | By the time of the Restoration in 1660 , the country was beginning to get back to normal . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 28 | Melissa was beginning to feel out of her depth . |
| 29 | He knew , too , that his lack of sleep was beginning to catch up with him . |
| 30 | Ken meanwhile was beginning to look down on a great deal of what he had been asked to do professionally . |