Example sentences of "have begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Largely as a result of Donald Griffin 's book The Question of Animal Awareness ( Rockefeller UP , 2nd ed 1981 ) , ethologists have begun to re-examine the issue of animal intellect and to ask whether the organisms they study are , as we presume ourselves to be , something more than mere mindless circuitry . |
| 2 | To adapt the slogan ‘ Put the Great back in Britain ’ , some of them have begun to put the river back into river management . |
| 3 | There is evidence that the same trends have begun to permeate the private sector . |
| 4 | We have begun to ask the Lord and ask the church to send out workers into this particular harvest field with the aim of finding out what needs there are in the area , offering practical help from house to house and seeing who would like to consider following Jesus . |
| 5 | Whatever the reticence of archaeologists on the matter — perhaps they fear being thought fanciful by their academic colleagues — excavations have begun to confirm the details in legends and myths . |
| 6 | Yet it is only in the past decade that biologists have begun to appreciate the real extent of it . |
| 7 | As my own confidence in working investigatively has grown I have begun to see the potential of chance events like the appearance of the padlock . |
| 8 | Economic historians have begun to explore the issues , but the political historians have yet to master them . |
| 9 | We returned in December 1991 and , having established my studio on Auckland 's north shore , I have begun to paint the landscape and coastline of this part of the island . |
| 10 | Each in its own way , the four works examine the role of the novel in an age in which electronic networks have begun to overtake the printed codex as the archetypical manifestation of the word . |
| 11 | Some research archives such as the ESRC Data Archive have begun to approach the problem by shifting the responsibility for documenting the datasets to the depositor ( Lievesley 1993 ) . |
| 12 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |
| 13 | Nursing and midwifery have begun to develop the accoutrements of a profession , but this development has been impeded by the burgeoning of lay-managers in the NHS , who have considerable power , but not necessarily any professional expertise , and whose prime loyalty is to accountants and not to patients . |
| 14 | It is only recently that the municipal authorities and hospital boards have begun to discuss the possibility of changing the insurers ' conditions of funding so that they are more permissive of non-medical intervention and support . |
| 15 | Recently people have begun to criticize the violence , sexism and racism in many programs , the exploitation of children 's needs by commercials aimed at them , the biased politics of ‘ objective ’ news reporting , and by the threat to cultures in the developing world by the widespread broadcasting of TV programs created for a US audience . |
| 16 | We have begun to feel the benefit . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , the evidence from the major towns has attracted most attention in the literature , but recent syntheses of the material from the small towns have begun to redress the balance . |
| 18 | Now , however , contemporary critiques of the notion of the subject ( see , for example , Heideggerian phenomenology , structuralism , psychoanalysis or Derrida 's deconstruction ) have begun to dismantle the assumptions concealed in the notion of subjectivity . |
| 19 | Yet since the 1960s a number of scholars working in the West have begun to break the mould . |
| 20 | Along the way I was engaged in some of the startling ‘ business as usual ’ banking practices that have begun to plague the world financial system . |
| 21 | The Conservatives have begun to show the way forward . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , many women have begun to reject the expectations of men and have looked for their own ‘ role models ’ among themselves . |
| 23 | However , it is only comparatively recently that feminists have begun to raise the issue more generally within the women 's liberation movement . |
| 24 | But in recent years students of human ethology — human patterns of behaviour — have begun to follow the lead of their counterparts who observe animals , and to collect and catalogue raw empirical data . |
| 25 | The degree of failure has led to differences in absolute levels of economic performance between Britain and most of the advanced economies , which have begun to alter the relationship between them . |
| 26 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 27 | I suspect that this means that it will revive only after we have begun to build the European Socialist Party , and with it the hopes of millions . |
| 28 | Undergraduate students have begun to recognise the importance of primary care . |