Example sentences of "begins [to-vb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A crisis of confidence among Britain 's producers was the result of this sort of taunting , and from around this time one begins to detect in the press a sense that the nation 's honour was threatened by its film industry 's parlous condition .
2 The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust .
3 Free direct thought is deployed to show the conscious workings of the mind of an introspective man , a technique less appropriate for Lok , whose consciousness of self only begins to develop in the course of the action ; narrator 's report of thought act or free indirect thought is used for him .
4 As the froth turns in from the sides and the coffee begins to rise in the pot , it is removed from the heat and a little is poured into each cup to distribute the froth .
5 Now , however , it begins to rehearse in the play situation for the cooperation and interaction with others which is enjoined by society .
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