Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the beginning of the eighteenth century several important new developments were beginning to be visible . |
| 2 | William the Marshal was a knight-errant in the first age of chivalry , a great tournament man when tournaments were beginning to be civilized . |
| 3 | However , it was beginning to be apparent that the decline in the birth rate would radically affect these calculations . |
| 4 | The effect of this decline in German firepower at a moment when the French artillery , reorganised by Pétain , was beginning to be effective , was immediate and lethal . |
| 5 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 6 | Culturally , too , there were signs that Europe was beginning to be receptive again , as she had not since the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | In spite of himself , the lawyer was beginning to be interested . |
| 8 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 9 | It was beginning to be clear there was something fearful about her mother . |
| 10 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 11 | It was beginning to be light and swallows , gathering to fly away , were noisy and busy round the eaves . |
| 12 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 13 | Sometimes she thought from the way he seemed to watch her that he might like her too but he had never said anything and Sally was beginning to be afraid he never would . |
| 14 | I was beginning to be afraid … ’ |
| 15 | She was beginning to be afraid , in fact , that she had drunk too much . |