Example sentences of "began [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more the USSR began to probe for influence in Iran and Turkey , and to try to exploit Anglo-American " capitalist contradictions " , the more London began to see possible advantages — for instance — in the spread of American oil interests in the Middle East . |
| 2 | It was a short stay , but the year was to be an important one , for during it Louis-Napoleon began to see new ways in which his devotion to the Bonapartist cause might be developed . |
| 3 | When we got out into the open sea beyond the fiord , we began to see more auks , mainly Brüinnich 's guillemots and little auks , and a lot more fulmar flying around . |
| 4 | Farmers began producing two flocks a year ( which substantially reduced their costs ) and the breed changed from the traditional bronze or black strain to a white-feathered bird . |
| 5 | It is generally accepted that during the period of the First Crusade knights began to wear distinguishing marks of one kind or another . |
| 6 | The concept of prevention also began to embrace wider concerns for the well-being of all deprived children , not only those at immediate risk of entry into care ( Leissner , 1967 ; Runnicles , 1968 ) . |
| 7 | During the early ninth century , the Vikings of Norway , Sweden and Denmark began raiding Anglo-Saxon colonies on Britain 's eastern coasts and within that century they became dominant in the north and east . |
| 8 | Russia wished to use the Teleuts as a buffer against the Dzhungars , but in the end they were overwhelmed by a superior power and began raiding Russian lands again around 1700 at the behest of their new masters , as did the Kazakhs further west . |
| 9 | Then Mr Lewis began to report certain remarks his lordship and others had made at dinner on that first evening after his arrival . |
| 10 | Anne and Sarah began to attend modern dances and were an immediate success with the young men who went there . |
| 11 | Some Conservative MPs began to attend fascist meetings and , as already suggested , there were some young Conservatives who supported fascism that developed in relatively middle-class towns such as Harrogate . |
| 12 | By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war . |
| 13 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man . |
| 14 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual night race cheated death yesterday after their vessel was flooded and began to sink three miles off the Isle of Man . |
| 15 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |
| 16 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 17 | Few people believed that a market for such high priced machines existed , but Cray continued to increase sales and growth , until eventually many other companies from around the world began building such supercomputers . |
| 18 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 19 | It was crowded , and as the rain began to fall more rabbits came down the runs . |
| 20 | Many groups and denominations began to plant new churches in schools , disused church buildings and halls and pubs up and down the country . |
| 21 | In 1844 he became a regional committee member of the newly formed British Archaeological Association and began to conduct larger excavations , communicating his discoveries through the Association 's Journal . |
| 22 | After 1534 , Henry began to issue ecclesiastical injunctions on his own authority ; in 1535 his secretary of state , Thomas Cromwell , who had already played a major role in engineering the break with Rome , was appointed vicegerent or vicar-general of the church . |
| 23 | Consequently , in order to assert its prevalence , the Court of Chancery began to issue common injunctions which , although directed at the litigant personally rather than the common law courts , had the effect of limiting common law jurisdiction … |
| 24 | He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town . |
| 25 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 26 | During the 1970s , many fishermen were forced from the anchoveta fishery and the associated use of purse-seine vessels , and began using smaller boats , setting gill-nets to catch coastal fish species . |
| 27 | In the first months of Kennedy 's presidency the United States not only undertook a substantial arms build up , but also began to float new ideas in strategic doctrine , most notably Maxwell Taylor 's theory of flexible response . |
| 28 | They began farming three years ago , when loans were easy to get and their bank was happy to lend them all they needed . |
| 29 | Fearing a similar assault on parliament , Lithuanians began to erect concrete barricades around the building , while inside supplies of gas masks and weapons were prepared . |
| 30 | Halfway through their feeding by the two adult bluetits , a pair of blackbirds appeared on the scene … and began to provide second helpings to every meal ! |