Example sentences of "be beginning [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The private farmers pay more for everything than the collectives , labour materials , taxes , yet they 're beginning to turn a profit from the soil . |
| 2 | Those green shoots of economic spring here in the UK are beginning to feel a mite lonely as the gross domestic product figures from the US yesterday brought more evidence that the recovery there seems to have stalled , and analysts are redoing their sums on IBM Corp in light of recent information : Furman Selz removed the company from its recommended list and analyst Peter Lieu said he lowered his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates because of the extreme gross margin pressure on the mainframe business ; Bear Stearns & Co analyst Cliff Friedman cut his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates on IBM , but bravely maintains a hold rating on the stock ; he trimmed his 1993 estimates on IBM to break-even from $1.25 a share and cut his 1994 estimates to $2.25 , from $3.25 , again citing weak mainframe demand . |
| 3 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 4 | Perhaps recognition of a field of urban physical geography is an indication of the way in which geomorphologists are beginning to perceive a world pattern . |
| 5 | ‘ The Ashton Gate boo-boys are beginning to have a go at me and it does n't help , ’ said Cole . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm beginning to read a wealth of meaning into that monosyllable . |
| 7 | But the wet clammy oilskins were beginning to resemble a sauna . |
| 8 | In a previous issue of JFIT News we announced that we were beginning to draft a proposal for a new Compound Semiconductor Advanced Technology Programme , and we asked for your views and ideas as to the scope of the workplan and the size of the budget . |
| 9 | In the early 1960s , however , changes within Northern Ireland were beginning to create a degree of common interest between Unionists and Nationalists in Derry , and they were brought closer together in resistance to the industrial and commercial decline of the city . |
| 10 | The cluster co-ordinators were beginning to find a role here , drawing on their experience of secondary/tertiary links . |
| 11 | They were beginning to attract a penumbra of gallery-goers , as though they were offering a guided tour . |
| 12 | Clearly , further education is now well represented within the Welsh Office and the central authority in Wales is beginning to give a lead to its future development . |
| 13 | Howard also finds with pleasure that he is beginning to speak a language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office , even to Phil — schuppen structure , Pennine ‘ windows ’ , and Dinaride outliers . |
| 14 | Sun Microsystems is beginning to make a splash in the pre-press business . |
| 15 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 16 | While archaeological survey and excavation directed by Dr Trevor Watkins and Caroline Wickham-Jones is beginning to uncover a complex , changing pattern of human settlement , palaeoenvironmental studies are attempting to draw a picture of the evolution of the local landscape . |
| 17 | Erm so I mean this is this is never distressed but it 's beginning to look a bit ancient now . |
| 18 | The interior of the Emperor was beginning to resemble a hell . |
| 19 | He was beginning to see a glimmer of sense about this world . |
| 20 | The famous high temper which no one , not even her formidable papa , knew how to cope with , once she was on fire , was being controlled by a man whose outward-seeming was mild and pleasant , although beneath Dr Neil 's bland exterior she was beginning to sense a will as strong and resolute as her own . |
| 21 | By the late thirteenth century , when the first translations into the vernacular were commissioned ( often at the behest of men of a military cast of mind , such as Edward I , who had one made in Anglo-Norman ) Vegetius was beginning to enjoy a popularity which was to last until early modern times . |
| 22 | She was beginning to notice a change in Jack . |
| 23 | At the very least , he was beginning to form a picture of the relationship between Peter Fleming , Nona Pitt and Terry Place . |
| 24 | He was beginning to form a picture of the murderer and even beginning to wonder if he had a match . |
| 25 | There was the odd student sit-in and the National Union of Students was beginning to find a voice . |
| 26 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 27 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 28 | So I thought if I er But I was beginning to get a bit worried so I thought well I might as well go up because I shall start to worry and things get out of proportion with me you see ? |
| 29 | I was beginning to get a sense that people held too many differing visions of Peru , beyond the often mentioned three realities of costa , selva y cordillera . |
| 30 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |