Example sentences of "[verb] have begun [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military government is reported to have begun granting timber concessions to logging companies in areas opened up by oil company roads . |
| 2 | The USA was reported to have begun withdrawing its nuclear weapons from South Korea , according to South Korean government sources on Nov. 28 . |
| 3 | Soon after , Farrow is said to have begun making threatening phone calls in the middle of the night , screaming that he was the devil and should die and burn in hell . |
| 4 | The grand jury was also understood to have begun investigating allegations that city contracts had been granted to friends of Barry in return for drugs and other payments , and the possibility that further charges would be filed was not ruled out . |
| 5 | In fact , enthusiasm for the lift seems to have begun to fade fairly soon . |
| 6 | Mozart seems to have begun to refine his style of composition , and two of them at least stand well with the very popular symphonies of the next decade — the Symphony in G Minor , K.183/173dB , written in October 1773 just after his return from Vienna , and the Symphony in A major , K.201/186a , written in April the following year ( see PLATE IV and 19 & 20 ) . |
| 7 | Dover is believed to have begun involving Jaguar 's suppliers in the X100 at an early stage , to smooth potential problems . |
| 8 | What that word represented had begun to grow in her from almost the very first moment she had seen him . |
| 9 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 10 | EVERY now and again , just when flower arranging has begun to seem a reasonable way of spending Saturday afternoons , the game produces something which restores the faith . |
| 11 | Accordingly , he had restrained his own consumption just as Cunningham 's had begun to accelerate out of control . |