Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |
| 2 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 3 | He was no carpenter but he did his best and he began to sell wood on a larger scale . |
| 4 | This prompted a famous exchange at the hearings , when John Nields , the House counsel , began to question North on a document headed ‘ from Goode ’ : ‘ I take it you are Goode ? |
| 5 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 6 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 7 | In the 1850s the fossil record began to yield evidence for a new kind of trend within the development of each class . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , working in the artificial intelligence centres that began to open in the 1950s and 1960s , computer scientists began to make progress of a sort . |
| 10 | In the 1890s purists began to make headway at a local level by persuading the police and the courts to support their programme . |