Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can begin to answer this question by listing three principles concerning the divine which have emerged from the analysis in the previous chapter : |
| 2 | Yet it ought not to be long before some healthy doubts begin to disturb this mood of self-congratulation . |
| 3 | Even those mammals best adapted to desert conditions , such as the camel , can not begin to match this ability . |
| 4 | But if we consider for example the kind of idea about " aesthetics " or aesthetic experience " held by Adorno we can begin to understand this persistence . |
| 5 | Following Samuel Huntington , we can begin to assess this question by identifying three broad and conflicting conceptions of conservatism . |
| 6 | We might begin to explain this paradox by recognizing that not only is much of what we call knowledge socially constructed , the boundaries between subjects are also socially constructed . |
| 7 | But I was beginning to like this teacher . |
| 8 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |
| 9 | In fact both the US State Department and the Joint Chiefs were already beginning to rank this region immediately after Europe in their list of strategic priorities . |
| 10 | Another famous Marxist , Edouard Bernstein — who was to lead the right wing of Social Democracy — began to challenge this position in 1890 . |
| 11 | He began to study this idea , and he was to think later ( ‘ When I could think sanely again , ’ he said ) that this was one of the things that saved his reason . |
| 12 | Such items are offered by drink and tobacco companies who face advertising restrictions , but other producers are beginning to adopt this type of promotion . |
| 13 | I 'm beginning to think this valley is a sort of extended nut-house . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I was beginning to think this place must be a figment of someone 's imagination . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was beginning to think this room empty too , ’ she says . |
| 16 | Large families began to threaten this prosperity because expectations of consumption kept rising while costs of children , especially for middle-class education , also rose . |
| 17 | So impressive was the damage , and the mess , that willing Goblins soon began to take this form of warfare quite seriously . |
| 18 | Many residential homes are now beginning to take this kind of approach very seriously , as Nightingale House does . |
| 19 | All this was as well , for we were beginning to need this information , and one special study has saved untold thousands of lives from deadly infection in swimming pools . |
| 20 | Its tail began to move this way and that with a faint , swishing noise . |
| 21 | During the 1900s feminists began to protest this assumption . |
| 22 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 23 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 24 | If he , Jaq — being a child of genetically wholesome parents — had begun to shine this light too , might not something in the nature of the world of Xerxes Quintus itself be to blame ? |
| 25 | Max Klein 's wife , Dora , however , had recently begun to tolerate this prohibition with definite , if unexpressed , ill-grace , finding that it greatly restricted her opportunity of parading before the community Max 's newly acquired Ford motor-car . |
| 26 | If you have ever watched a rabbit being pursued by a dog you will notice that whenever the dog gets close , the bunny begins to weave this way and that to confound Fido 's pounce . |
| 27 | It would be much easier to begin to resolve this argument if we knew more about how advertising works , and if we could be much more sophisticated than we are about how to relate target audiences and purchasing patterns to advertising . |
| 28 | To begin to decrease this isolation is therefore a vital part of the stress-reduction programme . |