Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's slightly happier about ‘ Fontana ’ , the second album and the one that yielded a hit in the shape of Shine On , but personnel problems were beginning to mar the band 's outlook and it soon became common knowledge that there was wet rot in The House Of Love . |
| 2 | Eight-year-olds were beginning to acknowledge the distinction , in that when they used the causal connectives in the deductive mode they appropriately followed because with evidence and so with a conclusion . |
| 3 | Even before 5 October 1968 it was clear that the radicals around the DHAC were beginning to lose the initiative and would be unable to consolidate themselves as an alternative leadership for anti-Unionists in the city . |
| 4 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 5 | By this stage we were beginning to realise the formula is two days in Paris , six days in a health farm . |
| 6 | Sea-birds were beginning to leave the shores and there were more seeding heads than flowers in bloom . |
| 7 | Friction , jealousy and suspicion of all kinds , of course , persisted , but without any doubt , even before American entry into the war , the intimacy and exchanges between the two nations were beginning to exceed the norms to be found within the ordinary run of international partnerships . |
| 8 | And by the fourth issue of Oz the plaudits were beginning to outnumber the brickbats . |
| 9 | Exports to North America increased eight-fold between 1770 and 1773 and moralists on the eastern seaboard were beginning to echo the condemnation of a tea-drinking , fashion-wearing , luxury-wallowing populace which had become so strident in England . |
| 10 | While little attempt was made to alter the character of the patchwork of health services available in the inter war period , all the parties that were to be involved in their transformation in the 1940s were beginning to examine the weaknesses of the existing provision and to formulate alternatives . |
| 11 | However , less flattering reports were beginning to reach the Mission School and also Vincent 's family in Etten . |
| 12 | The other rabbits were beginning to reach the hedge as Bigwig hopped down the bank and crouched on the verge of the road . |
| 13 | In the tenth step of the Smith family intervention , the Smiths were beginning to generalise the skills they had learned in the process of getting Keith to bed and persuading him to stay there . |
| 14 | The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly . |
| 15 | He said measures should be taken within reasonable costs to limit CO emissions ; many countries were planning to limit emissions by 2000 to 1990 levels , while developing countries were beginning to reduce the extent of deforestation . |
| 16 | In the 1830s and 40s geologists were beginning to unravel the mysteries of the early Palaeozoic rocks . |
| 17 | The view was doubly breath-taking firstly because we were now at 13,000ft ( 4000m ) and , after a long morning 's walk were beginning to feel the effects of the thin air ; and secondly because the vista before us was absolutely astounding . |
| 18 | Not only was this good news for TV science fiction it was also good news for the BBC , at a time when they were beginning to feel the effects of an increasingly powerful competitor — ITV . |
| 19 | Most of the voluntary organisations considered it their duty to inculcate a proper sense of shame in their charges , until World War II brought about the first intimation that unmarried mothers were beginning to avoid the hostels run by charitable institutions for that very reason . |
| 20 | Large , powerful computer systems based on minicomputer architectures but built using microprocessors , were beginning to offer the sort of graphical interface and high resolution screen that we take for granted today . |
| 21 | Even before the General Strike there was evidence that trade union leaders were beginning to challenge the notion that wage reductions could solve Britain 's economic difficulties and an increasing willingness to threaten industrial action . |
| 22 | It was no accident that medical misogyny , with its powerful definitions of moral and immoral female behaviour , reached a peak at precisely the moment when middle-class women were beginning to challenge the hegemony of the male professions . |
| 23 | However , by the mid-1960s , with antiimperialist wars raging in Africa , Asia and Latin America , various neo-Marxist theories were beginning to challenge the functionalist orthodoxies . |
| 24 | In fact , we were beginning to pack the place to the point where the landlord was extremely worried because there were far more people in than should have been . |
| 25 | Indeed , for many of the unskilled or sweated trades the sort of organisations which were beginning to make the strength of labour movements were quite impracticable . |
| 26 | Fitful clouds were beginning to obscure the sun . |
| 27 | Just as education , literacy and communications were beginning to prepare the workers for new radical organizations their attention and savings were captured by opportunistic entrepreneurs with a very different set of values . |
| 28 | Fortunately for the British government even Eisenhower and Dulles were beginning to accept the need for a summit , not least because they were anxious not to lose the propaganda initiative to the USSR . |
| 29 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 30 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |