Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In experience of this kind , perceptions achieved through the schema aesthetic begin to affect the total context of a work and start to not only direct attention but also change the way in which the image is seen . |
| 2 | Finalise the Report of the International Working Party , seek National Council 's agreement on how to proceed , and begin to implement the resulting policies . |
| 3 | It is at times like this when people begin to lose the true principles of religion as they become too involved and so wars begin . |
| 4 | We can also begin to see the broad outlines of a much longer connected history of respectable fears surrounding the demoralising influences of popular amusements . |
| 5 | Not until the application of water-power to machinery , and a consequent great increase in the size of machines , do we begin to see the large factory as an element in the landscape . |
| 6 | We soon begin to see the double-voiced nature of this supposedly ‘ useless ’ discourse . |
| 7 | Only in the nineteenth century did it begin to include the unfair management of people or things . |
| 8 | But it could not begin to realize the grandiose schemes dreamed up in St Petersburg to establish schools , orphanages , hospitals , clinics , veterinary services , insurance funds , grain stores , and so forth . |
| 9 | But this contentment is short lived as we begin to discover the true personalities of the characters and the realities which exist behind their initial pleasant façe . |
| 10 | You will feel clumsy and inept at most of the manual skills for at least a year , ; confidence and speed will only begin to appear the second or third time round . |
| 11 | The morning is brilliant and we soon begin to pass the all-night paddlers . |
| 12 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 13 | He pointed out that when armaments production and war reaches a certain point , when larger and larger quantities of material goods and labour-power are sucked into this process , it will begin to destroy the very basis of production itself . |
| 14 | ‘ In the UK , the trend of quarterly improvement has accelerated across all classes as we begin to reap the full benefit of the actions we have taken — and continue to take — on rates and operating costs . |
| 15 | This forms as the fibrils fan out and begin to create the spherical outline . |
| 16 | They say here that he will do no more of these questionless immobile heads as his designs begin to set the immobile against the mobile . |
| 17 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 18 | The Elves finally succeed in driving the last Dark Elves from northern Ulthuan and begin to sweep the northern seas clear of their ships . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , in the works of Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel , it could question the very bases of musical performance , extending the range of expression and gesture at the same time as it undermined their very validity , and begin to colonise the imprecise border country between theatre , music and performance art . |
| 20 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |
| 21 | It is in this very area that European theology can start to communicate with that of Latin America , and this exchange of experiences and ideas on theology and communication can begin to inspire the different Christian traditions to look for a common language . |
| 22 | Such questions begin to evoke the crumbling processes of The Possessed , the instability which flushes its entire structure . |
| 23 | Even given the briefest of sketches we can begin to glimpse the wider significances of design activity considered in this manner . |
| 24 | They begin to inculcate the dominant ideology from an early age , in the words of Esteinou Madrid , ‘ creating the political/cultural demand for the survival of capitalism ’ ( 1986 , p.119 ) . |
| 25 | Once you have improved the circulation , you can begin to knead the fleshy areas of your body such as thighs and calves . |
| 26 | But it is obvious that the reparative principle can not begin to justify the penal system that we have , since most punishments ( and most notably imprisonment ) contain little or no reparative element , and may even make it difficult or impossible for the offender to make amends . |
| 27 | By October , the waves off Cornwall are usually reaching their best and , as the ‘ escalids ’ disappear , paddling off on their stomachs , the ‘ real ’ surfers can begin to ride the biggest waves of the year . |
| 28 | When the streets of New York begin to recall the Wild West , it is hard to find money for boring old repairs to bridges , roads , tunnels and subways . |
| 29 | So we begin to understand the masculine fear in the early modern period of being effeminized — not , as might be the case today , by erotic contact with other men , but by excessive contact with women . |
| 30 | If partnerships do begin to question the established pillars of the secondary school curriculum they will certainly need to face the constraint placed on curriculum development by the National Curriculum and examination systems which dictate subject content . |