Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the second of Mr Harvey 's voyages of self-discovery : in the first , ‘ A Journey in Ladakh ’ , written eight years ago , he began to embrace Buddhism under the influence of a monk in exile from Tibet . |
| 2 | Soon , Wolf Riders began to report news of the Empire army 's advance to Gorbad , who sent a large force of Orc Boar Boys , Wolf Riders , Forest Goblin Spider Riders , and chariots to meet it . |
| 3 | During the 1970s he began to lose faith in the whole Freudian programme , and in his recent book , Skeptical Engagements , he provides detailed and substantially supported arguments for abandoning it . |
| 4 | Then composers began to lose interest in the instrument because it was useless in an orchestra , being just too quiet . |
| 5 | Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods . |
| 6 | However , the rural repopulation trends , already noted earlier in the chapter , began to gather pace in the 1960s , and by the 1970s and 1980s , a new phenomenon emerged which seriously undermined the process of decline namely the phenomenon of counterurbanization . |
| 7 | Similarly I began to gather information about the invertebrates . |
| 8 | The woman began to bear witness to the Jesus of whom she knew almost nothing , and was physically beaten up for her pains . |
| 9 | Tiller began to provide entertainment in the intervals at the Empress Ballroom , Blackpool . |
| 10 | For instance , the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign . |
| 11 | Although the personal concerns of rulers and their consorts began to find reflection in the jade record as early as the Shang dynasty , in general state affairs were dominant at this time . |
| 12 | Disenchantment with the liberal establishment characteristic of the 1960s began to find expression in the work of a new generation of scholars at major universities and research institutes . |
| 13 | By the late nineteenth century , like other British reds , the breed began to find favour on the ranches of western America , especially where cattle were rail-trucked , in which circumstances horns were a definite nuisance . |
| 14 | At a quarter to nine precisely , Father Johnson entered the church and began to celebrate Mass before the little group of kneeling worshippers . |
| 15 | PMMA began to replace glass in the 1940s because of its toughness , its optical properties and its physiological inactivity — also it was easily processed by using existing turning techniques . |
| 16 | In that same year he returned from studying on the Continent and began to exhibit work in the Royal Academy and with the New English and the London Group . |
| 17 | However , it is time to take a more positive view , and to look at the way early organisms began to combine energy from the sun with gases in the atmosphere and in so doing enabled life as we know it to evolve . |
| 18 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |
| 19 | Some managers began to express concern at the difficult position advisers would be in when working with the new social fund . |
| 20 | In the heady days immediately following the Keynesian revolution , many of Keynes 's followers began to express concern at the consequences which might flow from a commitment to full employment . |
| 21 | It was when he became aware of the dominance of some technique which emptied the art of meaning that he began to express scepticism over the art of the last decades . |
| 22 | But Innocent recovered and immediately began to exert control over the bishops . |
| 23 | After the interval , with the wind and slope in the home team 's favour , they began to put pressure on the Haslemere defence and scored two well-taken goals in a 15-minute spell . |
| 24 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 25 | And then irritation began to give way to the first tricklings of fear . |
| 26 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 27 | But that began to give way in the Industrial Revolution . |
| 28 | The evolution in party policy from the beginning of September , when , despite a ruthless government crackdown on its activities , it stressed the " anti-fascist " nature of the war , and the beginning of October when , following pressure from the Communist International , it began to give prominence to the " imperialist " nature of the struggle , " is of major significance when assessing Nizan 's decision to resign . |
| 29 | British and Australian substitutes for burgundy began to give place to the real thing . |
| 30 | While continuing a policy of pushing up rents , the Government began to curtail expenditure on the housing benefit scheme , and by 1987–8 the numbers claiming rent rebates had fallen to 3.7 million , and those claiming rate rebates to 7.1 million . |