Example sentences of "beginning [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are now beginning to see that the beatitudes are like steps cut into a mountain . |
| 2 | But at the age of forty he was at last beginning to wonder whether the image he created for himself in his twenties could stay with him for ever . |
| 3 | Of course , most of them thrive on it , but many people are beginning to wonder if the rewards for having power , and being able to influence others , are worth the costs , especially in terms of family relationships . |
| 4 | Now he was beginning to wonder if the colour had been natural . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've no idea but I 'm beginning to wonder if the cops do n't have another idea . |
| 6 | I was beginning to wonder if the place actually existed . ’ |
| 7 | As a result , abattoir owners are beginning to speculate that the operating framework of the beef sector could swing overwhelmingly towards exports — as it is already doing with lamb . |
| 8 | Today some analysts ( Frisby 1985 ; see Chapter Five above ) are beginning to suggest that the place to look for formative conditions of paradigm change in the human sciences is instead in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 9 | Whitlock had found his animosity towards Mobuto beginning to waver as the day progressed . |
| 10 | SIGNS are beginning to emerge that the survival of some firms of solicitors is being threatened by the collapse of the housing market . |
| 11 | SIGNS are beginning to emerge that the survival of some firms of solicitors is being threatened by the collapse of the housing market . |
| 12 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 13 | ‘ Even the Home Office is now beginning to question whether the Firearms Amendment Act , passed after the Hungerford incident , has helped secure public safety . ’ |
| 14 | But surely someone at AT&T is beginning to question whether the company 's grand deal with the unions will lead to more co-operation from its employees , or less . |
| 15 | I was beginning to fear that the preamble to the hon. Gentleman 's speech was part of the delaying tactic that he denounces . |
| 16 | Does he also agree that there has been a noticeable change of opinion in the business community , in that in 1990 it thought that we could go into the exchange rate mechanism without any disadvantage whereas it is now beginning to realise that the ERM obliges us to have a higher exchange rate and higher real interest rates than are appropriate for domestic needs ? |
| 17 | Darwin was beginning to realise that the naturalists at the Zoological Society might need more information than he had provided in his notes . |
| 18 | We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one . |
| 19 | Pete was beginning to think that the party had taken on an unpleasant edge . |
| 20 | Japan 's managers are beginning to notice that the politicians they have invested in no longer look so good outside their country ; on Russian aid and on international trade , they are always a step behind other rich countries . |
| 21 | Two days dead , the body was beginning to putrefy and the stench made both Benjamin and myself gag . |