Example sentences of "[noun] began to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This animated spirit , however , was less evident in Labour 's programme as the immediate postwar idealism and optimism began to be replaced by more pragmatic demands . |
| 2 | Towards the end of Elizabeth 's reign , covetous eyes began to be cast on far grander prizes . |
| 3 | Soon , however , restlessness and some undefined ambition began to be apparent . |
| 4 | In order to prevent the seasons getting out of phase , a thirteenth month was inserted from time to time , but there was no regular system for the intercalation of this additional month until the fifth century BC , when seven of these months began to be inserted at fixed intervals in a cycle of nineteen years . |
| 5 | He reports a significant increase in interest since private clients began to be deserted by some of the big City brokers . |
| 6 | In 1889 the more academic Christian Social Union was founded and the effect began to be felt in attacks on ‘ sweated ’ labour and other social abuses before the end of the century . |
| 7 | After the dozenth girl Killion began to be afraid that he would not recognize her ; but when she came out , even with a single dimmed-out light bulb behind her head , she was so much more than his memories of her . |
| 8 | Meanwhile another method of utilising livestock was explored : the preservation of slaughtered meat , by the traditional methods of salting and drying , by some sort of concentration ( Liebig 's meat extract began to be produced in the River Plate states in 1863 ) , by canning and finally by the decisive device of refrigeration . |
| 9 | Cereals and pulses began to be used intensively in many areas around 12,000yrBP , and shortly after 10,000yrBP domestic varieties of peas , lentils , barley and emmer wheat occur in several sites . |
| 10 | In China , the European trading houses began to employ local Chinese to act as their agents from the middle of the nineteenth century , and the term began to be attached to those who would serve the interests of the foreigner before the interests of their co-nationals . |
| 11 | Puzzled at first on noticing the familiar shape of Windmill Hill broken by another small , moving outline , she gazed with heightened interest as semaphore signals began to be spelled out from the ridge against the background of the sky . |
| 12 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 13 | Later in 1988 these units began to be joined north of the Thames by similar ( but AC current only ) units of Class 321 for use on Cambridge and Northampton services for which sixty-eight units were authorised , together with a further five similar Class 322 units for the Stansted Airport link . |
| 14 | The dispersed Eastern volunteer units began to be referred to as ‘ ROA ’ , but this was a fiction . |
| 15 | Following the passing of the 1689 Toleration Act , which gave Presbyterians , Baptists , Quakers , and other dissenters from the Anglican church the right to worship in public , new nonconformist meeting-houses began to be constructed throughout England . |
| 16 | The film shows a reversal of fortune only towards the end of the decade , as the rock culture waned and jazz began to be studied in conservatoires . |
| 17 | Opposition began to be organized locally as well . |
| 18 | There came a stage though , when the hand methods began to be replaced by the compressed-air ( or steam powered ) mechanical rock-drill . |
| 19 | So great were such feats , and so very great was Charles , that countless legends sprung up around him , and his rule began to be thought of as a golden age . |
| 20 | During the second half of the decade , however , this perception began to be challenged by commentary that pointed out controlled , intellectual qualities in her work and , thus , described it using terms traditionally applied to the art of men . |
| 21 | In January 1948 the US State Department began to consider posting an Ambassador to Madrid and supplies of petroleum and military and paramilitary matériel began to be sent through the Standard Oil Company . |
| 22 | The success of the one-off rally prolonged the life of the movement and although it kept its basically evangelical outlook for a couple of years , Roy Wallis suggests that the likes of Peter Hill began to be replaced by a leadership that was ‘ more directly concerned with the civic-political aspects of moral reform , rather than with evangelism . ’ |
| 23 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 24 | A few months on in their friendship Nigel began to be sick of the hints of affection dropped by Eleanor . |
| 25 | Both the agreements and the plans drawn up between the King of Scotia and the Normans at the start of the winter began to be implemented , and the camp at Scone became empty . |
| 26 | Marcoussis and Herbin , whose work began to be noticed during 1912 and 1913 , had also approached Cubism directly through Picasso and Braque . |
| 27 | For example , it is now more than twenty years since team models of social service staff deployment began to be strongly advocated in the United States and , although actual research on this approach has been limited in recent years , good results were reported from the use of social service teams in a variety of settings , including mental hospitals ( Barker and Briggs , 1969 ) , public welfare departments ( Schwartz and Sample , 1967 ) and elsewhere ( Brieland et al . , |
| 28 | Around the turn of the century manufacture began to be concentrated at a new site in Ilford . |
| 29 | Once the sand began to be swept to one side to form ridges , heating of the flanks of those ridges would promote the continuation of the vortices and hence ensure a stable dune pattern . |
| 30 | ’ You know , ’ he went on , ’ I often wonder what it must have been like before people 's working lives began to be separated from their personal lives . |