Example sentences of "was beginning to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 2 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 3 | However , in an optimistic assessment following a G-7 Finance Ministers ' meeting on July 15 , the US Treasury Secretary , Nicholas Brady , said that the recent fall in the cost of borrowing in the UK [ see p. 38355 ] and Japan indicated that the aim of lower interest rates was beginning to be achieved . |
| 4 | Clasper was beginning to be seen by his own members for what he really was : a born agitator and troublemaker who was great to have around when plant managements behaved like bastards because he was one too and would give as good as he got in a stand-up fight . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , multi-party systems proliferated , though in some states the technique of organizing mass parties was beginning to be seen as the key to political power . |
| 6 | By 1960 the judicial approach in the House of Lords , which has been summed up by Alan Paterson as ‘ be fair , be consistent , do n't legislate ’ , was beginning to be seen as too restrictive and the potential conflicts between the requirements of fairness , consistency and creativity were being recognized . |
| 7 | Outside , Marxist socialism was beginning to be given attention by orators , and syndicalist trade unionists were beginning to flex their industrial muscles . |
| 8 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 9 | By the 1960s , however , the ‘ success ’ of the existing social formation was beginning to be called into question in various ways . |
| 10 | But their magnetism was beginning to be challenged as early as 1953 by Marilyn Monroe , playing the busty gold-digger , Lorelei Lee , in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes alongside Jane Russell , whose bust , supported by a specially cantilevered bra designed by her master Howard Hughes , was the most noticeable asset she had . |
| 11 | But constitutional states had left few of the old privileges of rank untouched ; elsewhere , even when their formal legal status was beginning to be challenged , concessions to aristocratic tradition were still expected in practice . |
| 12 | Thus the ideology of the Church , in addition to its power as an institution , was beginning to be challenged . |
| 13 | They also said that there were signs the ceasefire was beginning to be respected . |
| 14 | I chose to end the period about the time when the role of the Railway was beginning to be superseded by buses , lorries and private cars . |
| 15 | Both these main suites show the combination of ease and comfort which was beginning to be considered essential to the perfect home of the Twenties . |
| 16 | In other areas , the name ‘ Mission to the Deaf ’ was beginning to be dropped as new buildings replaced older ones . |
| 17 | The potential of pensions to reduce unemployment was beginning to be discussed within the labour movement , and was briefly alluded to by Chamberlain in the Commons debates on the 1925 Bill . |
| 18 | Such an idea was beginning to be put forward at least as early as the 1720s . |
| 19 | She 'd progressed from a rather lowly start to her present place on the team with IMP just at the time when the true importance of the fuel companies and their technicians was beginning to be appreciated by the general public , or at least those aficionados who followed the world of Grand Prix racing . |
| 20 | By the second decade of the new century instrumental music in general had developed special properties rendering obsolescent the concept of composition ‘ da cantare et sonare per ogni instrumento ’ or ‘ apt both for viols and voices ’ , while at the same time concerted secular music for voices was beginning to be overtaken in popularity by the vocal solo or duet . |
| 21 | Now , Fiona was thought to be a suitable bride for my father-just the right age , pretty and vivacious enough it was thought to appeal to a man who was beginning to be known as a confirmed bachelor . ’ |
| 22 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |