Example sentences of "[adv] began to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gold was certainly used as a decorative inlay for bronzes as early as Shang times , but precious metals only began to be highly valued in China comparatively late and then as an outcome of influence from inner Asia and the west . |
| 2 | This only began to be reversed as a trend after 1975 . |
| 3 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 4 | Fears soon began to be expressed that wines from the Midi too would again find their way back into Champagne cellars . |
| 5 | In the richer agricultural regions the dues owed to the Grand Prince , or to lay and ecclesiastical landowners , gradually began to be converted from payment in kind to money rents . |
| 6 | But he continued to be interested in the principles behind tribal art rather than in the aesthetic appeal of individual objects ; and these principles could be embodied even in the contemporary ‘ forgeries ’ which quickly began to be produced in quite large numbers to meet the demand for ‘ primitive ’ art . |
| 7 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 8 | The natural right to liberty also began to be combined , though much less regularly than in the 1820s , with the conviction from liberal political economy of the greater efficiency and wealth-creating properties of free labour . |
| 9 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 10 | The previously unthinkable prospect of a non-academic career now began to be thought — with fear , dismay and bewilderment on Robyn 's part . |
| 11 | Morality itself now began to be redefined . |
| 12 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 13 | When he graduated Hugo took a succession of low-paid jobs in 7th Avenue and the optimism with which he had set out began to be dimmed by the sheer sick-making banality of what he had to do — cutting samples in the disgusting fabrics with which the greedy cutthroat manufacturers he worked for made their living . |
| 14 | ‘ They are growing up missing half their heritage , and I really began to be concerned when they said fish and chips were their favourite food . |
| 15 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 16 | New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain . |
| 17 | Sites then began to be linked on the basis of the type of stone tools that they produced , and on some sites different types of stone tools were found in superimposed layers . |
| 18 | While the availability of systems such as SPSS meant that there was a temptation for humanists to fit their special data to the software , rather than to design software for the data , on the other hand there began to be developed systems for source-oriented data entry , of which the most famous was CLIO . |
| 19 | Further north the impact of urbanization again began to be seen as a positive stimulus to growth , leading Champion ( 1987 ) to conclude that the most outstanding aspect of population change there was the strong upward shift recorded by the main conurbation areas , with the metropolitan counties of the West Midlands , Merseyside , Greater Manchester , Tyne and Wear , and Strathclyde registering the strongest improvements . |
| 20 | It was not only other ancient literature that was opened up for new understanding by the Renaissance : the Bible too began to be read with new eyes , eyes no longer focused simply by the authoritative teaching of the church . |