Example sentences of "began to emerge [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The solution to the financial problem began to emerge with the adoption of a forward-planned annual budget in which each branch and student group was allocated a financial target or ‘ quota ’ to be raised each year to eradicate existing deficits and prevent recurrence of indebtedness .
2 A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community .
3 But to detectives who investigated the crimes of Dr Courtney , he began to emerge as the perfect model of a rapist .
4 On the extreme Left the Communist Party began to emerge as the dominant group although throughout the decade the ILP had more electoral and parliamentary influence .
5 The modern environmental movement began to emerge during the post-war period , although its initial emphasis was still on protection rather than conservation , and most of the effort was directed towards preserving large animals and their habitats in the Third World .
6 As the ambulance left the scene , neighbours , who had been kept shut in their houses for two days , began to emerge into the sunshine .
7 When a Palestinian political identity began to emerge after the 1967 Arab–Israeli war — when the West Bank and Gaza Strip were occupied by the Israeli army — the promise contained in these mundane implements and pieces of paper was somehow renewed .
8 They were united in the implementation of sanctions against Iraq after the latter 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , but differing positions began to emerge by the end of the year [ see p. 37927 ; 37934 ] and the French government 's 11-hour attempt to avoid conflict was made without consultation with its EC counterparts [ see p. 37935 ] .
9 Only when the baby 's head began to emerge from the womb was a doctor sent for .
10 Conflicting signals now began to emerge from the Commission .
11 Once the father was imprisoned , new and even more disturbing allegations began to emerge from the children .
12 By mid-1946 , serious alarm was being expressed within the USA about Soviet expansion in Europe ( coupled with the revelations from Canada of a Soviet atomic spy ring ) , and a tougher line began to emerge from the White House on foreign policy issues .
13 Charles Tilly ( 1975 ) , in his introduction and conclusion to a volume which examines in detail some major aspects of the development of national states in Western Europe , considers the specific conditions in which these states began to emerge from the beginning of the sixteenth century , outlines their distinctive features , and reviews the causes of their development and eventual dominance .
14 The picture that began to emerge in the early 1980s was not encouraging .
15 The picture which began to emerge in the mid-1980s was therefore confusing and contradictory .
16 The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope .
17 A ‘ new ’ Congress began to emerge in the early 1970s following changes in its regional composition , Congressional reform , developments in campaign practices and the new importance of television in legislative politics .
18 The new word quickly settled down , however , as a regular pattern began to emerge in the trouble associated with the London Hooligans .
19 The two main rivals that began to emerge in the early 1980s were Thomson , the traditional market leader , and Intasun , a fast growing holiday and leisure group of companies .
20 The phrase ‘ interpretative paradigm ’ is used here as a shorthand description of newer theories of organization that first began to emerge in the early 1970s .
21 As she dropped her hand , a dark red patch began to emerge against the tan of his skin .
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