Example sentences of "[det] [noun] began [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the problems and doubts , sandwich courses remained a central feature of the polytechnics — even as some institutions began to press for full-time courses to replace or to accompany them . |
| 2 | A few birds began to make with the auditions . |
| 3 | Even though the university system grew rapidly , demand for places in some subjects began to outrun supply . |
| 4 | But slowly another emotion began to take over — anger . |
| 5 | All this Sylvie began to learn as she watched his graceful gestures and questioned him . |
| 6 | However , by the early 1980s some LEAs began to adopt more prescriptive approaches , insisting on school policies fostering racial equality within given time limits ( e.g. ILEA , Brent ) , prescribing aspects of headteacher behaviour to ethnic minority parents ( e.g. Bradford ) , making certain forms of racist behaviour a disciplinary offence ( e.g. Manchester ) or establishing central mechanisms to decide upon school suspensions and so removing power from Heads and Governors ( e.g. Birmingham ) . |
| 7 | Subsequently this figure began to increase steadily and by 1988 , the latest year for which figures are available , it was 20 per cent . |
| 8 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 9 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 10 | This meant that an older social critique , whose pedigree went back hundreds of years , was expanded to take account of juvenile employment in such a manner as to make the critique more subtle , at least in the sense that some reformers began to suggest that the combination of juvenile psychology , conditions of labour and industrial training was influential far beyond the workplace and on a scale previously unrecognized . |
| 11 | On 14 May , as the head of this column began to cross the frontier between Dravograd and Bleiburg , Tito 's forces were massing in considerable strength on both sides of the frontier around them . |
| 12 | In the 1980s , Asian economies moved from low-tech to mid-tech or even high-tech , and some countries began to export knowledge products and most were turning more to research as an underpinning of future economic growth . |
| 13 | Inside our flat , small drifts of this sand began to blow in under the doors and through the cracks in the window frames . |
| 14 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 15 | Reference to annual series of population estimates indicates that in Great Britain , this process began to accelerate in the mid 1960s and has waned since reaching a peak in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | With the decline of secular Arabism as a credible ideology in the late 1970s , some Palestinians began to affirm their religious loyalties . |
| 17 | To add to the problems , some stations began to voice unease about the format and content of the traditional , international and national ITN service followed by a short local programme . |
| 18 | This need began to become apparent in the later 19605 . |
| 19 | As the programmes developed , some teams began to include a range of options to meet different needs and preferences . |
| 20 | And some viewers began to wonder about our relationship . |
| 21 | The Rising Star and Half Moon began to shine as I wended my way back over the Skerne Bridge . |
| 22 | Some managers began to express concern at the difficult position advisers would be in when working with the new social fund . |
| 23 | In that summer of 1940 the first few families began to leave town and come to live in their country ville outside Fontanellato . |
| 24 | After 1760 bulls were brought in from England , the Netherlands and southern Scotland to improve them and some farmers began to specialise in certain colours or coat patterns . |
| 25 | ‘ As it was being carried , some stockbrokers began tugging at it and a scuffle ensued . |
| 26 | Some people began to throw stones , the police hustled the teller off the pitch into a police car and drove him hurriedly away . |
| 27 | In 1989 he took a rest from running junior soccer teams and this season began refereeing in the South Merseyside Junior League . |
| 28 | THE Forestry Commission this week began felling 120 fine old beech trees in the Crown-owned Savernake Forest in Wiltshire , saying they had to protect the public from dangerous boughs . |
| 29 | Another student began to study the language of press advertising : and a third — myself — began to study the language of television commercials , then a relatively new medium of advertising in the U.K. |
| 30 | Another dog began to bark , this time inside the house . |