Example sentences of "beginning [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazing idly over the rolling green lawns , she watched the red glow of the sun , slowly beginning to sink down over the horizon . |
| 2 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 3 | The universal availability of the mass media has been rapidly achieved through relatively cheap transistor radios , cassette recorders and televisions , which now totally penetrate the First World , almost totally penetrate the urban Second and Third Worlds , and are beginning to penetrate deeply into the countryside in every country . |
| 4 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |
| 5 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 6 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 7 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 8 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 9 | There are also early signs that the increased cost of imports resulting from the devaluation of sterling last September is beginning to work through to the shops . |
| 10 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 11 | When the bloody offal was slapped onto the concrete path before it , the cat hesitated only briefly before running towards this welcome offering , and beginning to chew greedily at the soft , tasty guts . |
| 12 | By 1916 these were beginning to rankle sorely with the men at the front . |
| 13 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 14 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 15 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 16 | I 'm beginning to look forward to the rest of the party . |
| 17 | We 're now beginning to look forward to the return home , which is little more than 5 weeks distant . |
| 18 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 19 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to ease off with the rush hour traffic at the moment , not too bad at all at the moment . |
| 20 | More importantly , close examination of the practice uncovers fundamental issues which are beginning to seep through from the pages of research journals to the consciousness of many individual teachers in the classroom , and to affect the way they see their role . |
| 21 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |
| 22 | A way of life , a set of values and attitudes which , according to some social historians did n't emerge until the late 1800's when the British Empire was at its most powerful , when imperialism , nationalism and Toryism were beginning to figure prominently in the language of the pubs and the music halls . |
| 23 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 24 | With a quick sigh of relief she saw Jill and other members of the emergency resuscitation team beginning to arrive breathlessly on the scene . |
| 25 | Good news for teachers and pupils alike , information is beginning to trickle through about the new Rock School Ltd graded examinations for guitar , drums and bass . |
| 26 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 27 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |
| 28 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 29 | This is the last year of the real recession and people are beginning to wake up to the opportunities . ’ |
| 30 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |