Example sentences of "be begin [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're beginning to sound like a pig . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 're beginning to sound like Luke , ’ Rob grinned . |
| 3 | You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My God , you 're beginning to sound like a wife . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're beginning to sound like the older generation . ’ |
| 6 | In our particular ministry in St Louis Missouri we are trying to use the vast technology that 's available to us in linking up with other organizations such as Catholic charities , Salvation Army and others , so that when persons are in need of help they can go to one organization and tell their story and they do n't have to keep going from place to place telling their story over and over and we 're beginning to look toward the use of computers and what they are capable of doing in order to help resources stretch . |
| 7 | You 're beginning to look like a sausage . |
| 8 | I think we 're beginning to stray into what I hope will be a fruitful discussion on Tuesday morning . |
| 9 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 10 | The first approach for the social worker should be to recognise that the discussions with the client and the family network are beginning to point to residential care as a positive possible option . |
| 11 | For instance , interest rates are beginning to fall in Germany , they have already fallen substantially in the UK and are very low in the US . |
| 12 | So far , we have seen that feminists are beginning to agree on what happens to girls in mixed-sex schools ; there is a growing consensus in research that education is a powerful force in shaping relations of dominance and subordinance between the sexes . |
| 13 | Libraries , adult education and leisure centres and other local agencies are beginning to respond to the needs of older people in the leisure field . |
| 14 | Some employers are beginning to respond to these demographic pressures by recruiting more older workers . |
| 15 | I think that 's the one danger of all of this , is that both the County Council 's and the District Council 's aim perhaps or now are beginning to listen to the parish councils , but also , just really get an eye off the ball , cos they 're looking for the increased responsibilities for their own purposes , and I think that 's one serious danger that we c have to face , as a local community . |
| 16 | Even so , alarm bells are beginning to sound at Westminster . |
| 17 | Already the information manager and the archivist are beginning to merge in a variety of business and government locations . |
| 18 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 19 | It argues that new housing is essential to boost labour mobility and maintain economic growth in areas where spiralling house prices are beginning to act as a disincentive to development . |
| 20 | In the end , we seek a second opinion — either we go out and accost a taxi driver , or we 'll ring our families , who are so accustomed to being used as sounding boards that they are beginning to insist on a screen credit . |
| 21 | Items are beginning to arrive at my home for display . |
| 22 | Most excitingly of all some lesbians and gays with disabilities are beginning to organize through groups such as Gemma ( lesbians with and without disabilities ) , Gay Men 's Disabled Group and the Brothers and Sisters Gay Deaf Group , to fight back from within the lesbian and gay movements . |
| 23 | Brambles from the embankment are beginning to encroach onto the highway causing problems both for pedestrians and for vehicles . |
| 24 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 25 | EXCITING applications are beginning to emerge for dissolving glass , a material discovered accidentally in a telephone company 's laboratory . |
| 26 | Serious doubts are beginning to emerge about the new blueprint already . |
| 27 | And it is ironic that just as we are beginning to turn to it for answers to environmental questions , it has begun aspiring to Western ways . |
| 28 | He saw a Population Apocalypse approaching and now he claims the wheels of disaster are beginning to turn in Britain . |
| 29 | Some of us , however , are beginning to wonder about the legendary fighting spirit of the Scottish people . |
| 30 | Although we can not yet say conclusively how objects are recognized visually we are beginning to converge on an answer . |