Example sentences of "he begins by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He begins by reminding us that monopolies have not progressively wiped out non-monopolies , as the traditional Marxist model predicts , but have tended to reach agreements with them instead . |
| 2 | He begins by telling us that , while researching the novel at the Weizmann Institute , he realised that his ideas for the story were remarkably close to the truth . |
| 3 | He begins by assuming that men do not naturally co-operate in society , and then seeks an explanation of how society is possible , given the natural state of ‘ war of all against all ’ . |
| 4 | He begins by dividing narrative up into semantic , syntactic and verbal aspects . |
| 5 | He begins by allowing the possibility of schism , such as that which took place in the Roman Empire ( II , 84 ) , which implies that humans can choose not to allow totalization . |
| 6 | He begins by flattering Brutus , in efforts to manipulate him into seeing his point of view . |
| 7 | He begins by summarising that for the obvious reasons of inaccessibility and defences , the peoples who reside among mountains are the last to be conquered : he progresses to consider similarly-caused impediments to civilisation : he deduces the part remoteness plays in the preservation of ancient languages . |
| 8 | He begins by questioning the adequacy of their measurement of the functional importance of positions . |
| 9 | He begins by presenting the information content of several protein families and goes on to deal with a variety of subjects , such as the evolution of the genetic code , neurobiology , the primaeval soup , black holes and cosmology . |
| 10 | As in a linguistic analysis , he begins by finding out what the basic units of combination are ( by analogy with the phonemes , morphemes , etc. which constitute the basic units of language ) . |
| 11 | Lévi-Strauss ' critique of Sartre effectively takes the form of a deconstructive analysis : he begins by arguing that the Critique works by a double movement — just as , only four years later , Derrida was to suggest that the anthropologist 's own work functions in exactly the same way . |