Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OD1 has less distortion to it than OD2 but even for that channel the gain preset of 4 is well down , so I kick it right up to 20 ( the upper limit of both gain and volume ) and things begin to sound a little more like it . |
| 2 | We can now begin to see a little more clearly some of the instrumental presuppositions on which interviewing depends . |
| 3 | Although I accept that the Home Secretary will not resign at this stage , does he accept that , when that case is combined with prisoner escapes and Sunday trading , his credentials as a law and order Minister begin to look a little threadbare ? |
| 4 | Europe would begin to play a more significant part in British affairs in the future . |
| 5 | HAVING taken your first steps on the road to becoming a video movie maker , you can now begin to run a little . |
| 6 | It is only by locating repeal feminism in the broader history of moral environmentalism that we can begin to understand the more obvious class and gender contradictions which surfaced in the politics of the social purity movements in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 7 | ‘ Can you tell me when we can begin to teach the totally inexperienced , gauche young ladies you 've employed as receptionists , or do we just let them loose on our unsuspecting clients ? ’ |
| 8 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Labs is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI Ltd division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment platform as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 9 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Laboratories Inc is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment system as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 10 | The formation of the Metropolitan County Councils and their respective Passenger Transport Authorities would begin to have a far reaching effect on the future of many lines and stations . |
| 11 | Well the traveller grinned And Billy beginned To tell the most marvellous tales Of earthquakes and crimes And fabulous times And whole families swallowed by whales . |
| 12 | Now things begin to make a little more sense . |
| 13 | Now things begin to make a little more sense . |
| 14 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 15 | Under popular ‘ pressure ’ from Haketa the German government extended laws forbidding the sale of land to Poles , sought out and expelled all non-Prussian Poles , and began to harass the increasingly effective and efficient Polish financial institutions with petty legalistic restrictions . |
| 16 | Peter and Jill slowly began to realize the markedly different requirements of their American customers . |
| 17 | Selkirk promised to leave his customary token force and Corbett , grateful for Selkirk 's intervention and assistance on the French galley , began to thank the rather taciturn Scottish knight . |
| 18 | The Hammers began to lose a little of their early composure as the half-time interval approached , but both defences regained a firm grip on proceedings after the break . |
| 19 | We are beginning to see how the whole thing fits together and again , I think , we are beginning to see a somewhat " catastrophic " picture . |
| 20 | In time , and under the influence of Sir Donald Cameron , a man of obscure origin and exceptional ability who had known the delights neither of DO-hood nor of public school , Indirect Rule began to acquire a less exotic coloration and a less inward-looking character than it had had in its glorious beginnings in Northern Nigeria . |
| 21 | In the late 1960s theorists began to acquire a more precise concept of the role of the W particle in weak interactions , and could make more precise predictions about its mass . |
| 22 | In that respect the game is certainly true to the movie , but it 's beginning to age a little now , since the release of its successors . |
| 23 | Jessamy stood in the centre of the drive , beginning to shake a little with reaction . |
| 24 | When it came to casting , it was thought that Jean-Paul Belmondo would be the best choice to play the Charrière role , although his international renown was beginning to fade a little . |
| 25 | If Mr Kinnock 's voice is beginning to grate a little after less than a month 's campaigning , is there a risk that the populace as a whole will not take to his Welsh lilt , should he get into Number 10 ? |
| 26 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 27 | She often unconsciously imitated her father 's voice , and , like him , was beginning to drink a little too much occasionally , out of boredom . |
| 28 | With new bathroom fittings , a re-thatched roof and a fresh coat of paint , Lavender Cottage gradually began to regain a little of its dignity . |
| 29 | In his Sacrae cantiones of 1573 Joachim a Burck ( 1646–1610 ) had employed chromaticism and the other devices of musica reservata to underline the sense of the Biblical texts , but when he began to set the very personal religious verse of Ludwig Helmbold — Latin odes and German Liedlein — the relationship between text and music became much closer , even madrigalian , and he himself claimed he had provided the 40 deutsche christl . |
| 30 | None the less , since antiquity there have been many efforts to describe features of the world , including the social , in quantitative terms , efforts which began to assume an even greater urgency and consequentiality with the rise of the modern nation state and its requirements for an accurate accounting of its resources . |