Example sentences of "have begun [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservation thinking has begun to grasp a few of the same nettles . |
| 2 | EVERY now and again , just when flower arranging has begun to seem a reasonable way of spending Saturday afternoons , the game produces something which restores the faith . |
| 3 | Conventional vetinary medicine failed to help the bird , but since undergoing a course of acupuncture at a surgery in Stroud , the Swan has begun to make a remarkable recovery . |
| 4 | AUSTRALIA is now in its seventh week without domestic air services because of a pilots ' pay dispute which has begun to have a serious impact on the economy and has left Bob Hawke 's Labor government few options for reaching a settlement . |
| 5 | And she had begun to form a unique library of prints she liked . |
| 6 | The Shah had built up his armed forces and had begun to create a nationwide secret police , but he had done almost nothing to meet the disparate but urgent demands of his people . |
| 7 | A major destination for African slaves was the Caribbean islands where British settlers had begun to generate a huge demand for forced labour on sugar , cotton , coffee and tobacco plantations . |
| 8 | Her legs had begun to acquire a nice , even tan , and she slipped her feet into a pair of sandals before brushing her still damp hair into a ponytail . |
| 9 | Earlier in the day Eric had begun to fake a bad stomach ache and made long and numerous trips to the lavatory . |
| 10 | By this time , however , Wagner and Nietzsche had explored areas of mutual interest in many conversations and had begun to exercise a reciprocal influence on each other 's thinking . |
| 11 | Already in the first century AD , under the influence of Judaism , Roman Society had begun to introduce a weekly day of rest — unlike ancient Greece where there were not even any school holidays , except on special occasions such as days in honour of Apollo , Poseidon , etc . |
| 12 | The Windscale site had begun to achieve a bad reputation well before its recent rise to national prominence under a new title . |
| 13 | By the late 1850s Darwin had begun to prepare a multi-volumed account of his theory for publication . |
| 14 | And once that has begun to change , the peasant is off because he , he , he , he 's begun to see a new world that he can realize . |
| 15 | They have begun to dance a strange dance . |
| 16 | More recently , certain local authority organizations have begun to take a direct interest in popular music . |
| 17 | Among western specialists many revisionist arguments have begun to gain a wide measure of acceptance . |
| 18 | Recently , closures and redundancies have begun to have a serious impact . |
| 19 | However , this wo n't work if you have begun to enter a new program . |