Example sentences of "[noun pl] begin [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when funding stays level and subjects begin to compete for resources , the system breaks down . |
| 2 | After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion . |
| 3 | Exposure to the latter route of infection does not occur until kittens begin to hunt for themselves or to share the prey of their dams . |
| 4 | For several reasons , it might also have been expected , and will be seen later to have been the case , that some of the younger teachers in the higher status selective schools might become allies of those in the universities beginning to press for change . |
| 5 | Labourers began to scramble for the available employment ; unemployment increased ; while labourers still continued to anticipate marriage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising . |
| 8 | There was no sign of Gareth and fears began to grow for his safety . |
| 9 | Dartmoor was used by the inhabitants of both Devon and Cornwall until AD 850 , after which date common rights began to develop for the Moor , protecting the rights of all but the people of Barnstaple and Totnes ( who were excluded after AD 900 ) , while allowing the area to be hunted by the Wessex kings . |
| 10 | Once young Catholic theologians began to think for themselves , the excitements of modernity in the wider cultural mood of the 1960s carried them far beyond Congar . |
| 11 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
| 12 | Birth rates began to decline for all social groups as a consequence of changing attitudes towards economic conditions and opportunities . |
| 13 | Leading economic advisers began to press for greater reliance on the price mechanism , and in 1948 the Board of Trade had a ‘ bonfire of economic controls ’ . |
| 14 | When it was realised that , in proportion to body weight , women 's brains were in fact heavier than those of men , scientists began to search for other measures of difference . |
| 15 | At the same time , welfare benefits were increased but this did produce complaints about ‘ idlers ’ and ‘ scroungers ’ , across-the-board welfare payments were becoming increasingly expensive and some Labour Party members began to press for more selective methods of eliminating poverty . |
| 16 | It would seem that the priests fought a hard election campaign for the liberals began to press for the limitation of clerical deputies — a step inconceivable in 1809 . |
| 17 | Court cases and the resulting media responses given to these new ‘ drug fiends ’ ( to use the phrase coined by Stanley Cohen ( 1973 ) ) verged almost on the hysterical ( see Young 1977 ) , and moral entrepreneurs began to press for more controls and increased action . |
| 18 | Inevitably Americans began to look for ways to prevent a war in Europe from spreading to the American homeland . |
| 19 | Locals began to fear for her safety . |
| 20 | Later the men began to sing for us , sitting forward on the edge of their cots . |
| 21 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 22 | The food in question had , of course , belonged to the dead ; but now the living who still possessed their own meagre stores began to fear for their safety . |
| 23 | In 1977 , groups of Republican prisoners begun to campaign for its return by refusing to wear prison clothes or do prison work . |
| 24 | Soldiers began to leave for home ( although many never left ) , rationing became less strict , the balere reopened ( a great event for the young ) and , most important of all , we could talk freely with out the fear of being overheard . |
| 25 | Enterprises began to close for lack of fuel or materials , and officials warned that 35,000 people could be laid off work by the end of the month . |
| 26 | But while affluent British consumers began to ask for organic vegetables and real meat , total demand for these more naturally produced and more expensive foods remained small . |