Example sentences of "[n mass] have begun [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hercules transport aircraft have begun flying to the Gulf in support of the new air exclusion zone in Southern Iraq . |
| 2 | I have noticed , once the fish have begun feeding and I have set up a steady rhythm with the swimfeeder , that the crucial time for getting bites is up to thirty seconds after the ‘ feeder has hit the surface . |
| 3 | Meantime Canon Sales has begun marketing DAL Server for Unix from Pacer Software Inc , which enables Macintosh applications to access Unix databases . |
| 4 | By the autumn of 1959 , the Chiefs of Staff had begun to doubt its viability as an effective deterrent . |
| 5 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 6 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 7 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |
| 8 | People had begun to file out from the pews . |
| 9 | ‘ People had begun to look on the Lithuanian party as the servile agent , even the secret agent , of the Soviet Communist Party . ’ |
| 10 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 11 | People had begun to feel less ashamed about being greedy and of wanting more than their share of fairness . |
| 12 | Meat consumption had increased by something like a third between 1870 and 1890 , and working-class people had begun to eat fruit , which had previously been a luxury . |
| 13 | By the time he had got the train to Exeter St David 's , its first stop , people had begun arriving , notably his father in a taxi . |
| 14 | In recent years more people have begun using the judicial review process to challenge the performance of local authorities and other public bodies . |
| 15 | Yet rather than desert their tradition , people have begun to search within the myths and rituals of their religion for interpretations that redress this balance . |
| 16 | The fresh , country look has evolved over the last few years as people have begun to paint wooden units and replace solid doors with glazed doors to create a lighter atmosphere . |
| 17 | True , the moralities of many societies are defective , but this springs either from defective factual information or from the limited extent to which people have begun to engage with certain issues in a truly moral way . |
| 18 | People have begun to notice how much in practice the two converge . |
| 19 | People have begun to notice that the biosphere is not just a theme park to take the children to on Saturday afternoon but a very necessary thing for human survival . |
| 20 | People have begun to notice that the initial pleasure can give way to spiritual and psychological disruption . |
| 21 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |
| 22 | ‘ People have begun writing me off but I will be back . |
| 23 | Recently people have begun to criticize the violence , sexism and racism in many programs , the exploitation of children 's needs by commercials aimed at them , the biased politics of ‘ objective ’ news reporting , and by the threat to cultures in the developing world by the widespread broadcasting of TV programs created for a US audience . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Hamilton ( Mr. Robertson ) is not usually given to fanciful rhetoric , and if he studies the movement of opinion in Europe he must know that since Maastricht more and more people have begun to comment on the future of Europe in the same sort of way as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I did before . |
| 25 | In the last few years , a lot of people have begun working on baby universes . |
| 26 | Educationalists concerned with young people have begun to pay much more attention to the concept of ‘ peer education ’ — for example , in relation to smoking , drug or HIV programmes ( eg Smokebusters or Fast Forward in Scotland ) . |
| 27 | Recently people have begun to contemplate it as possible fuel in muon catalysed fusion and it is from this that current interest derives . |
| 28 | Prices are rising only slowly , and retail sales have begun to rise since Christmas , thanks to heavy price cuts which have produced some irresistible bargains . |
| 29 | There are many reasons why fashion has begun to look to Cocteau , not simply because it is his centenary and his Hellenic graphics have begun to adorn cult objects in designer stores ( on white vases at Oggetti , on black watch faces at the Watch Gallery ) . |