Example sentences of "was beginning to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sophie moreover actually had a job , had an income , which was beginning to be something of a pressing issue , inflation and the changing climate began to bite into their indifferent superiority to the outside world and they had given no thought as to how to fight that . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 7 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 8 | In other areas , the name ‘ Mission to the Deaf ’ was beginning to be dropped as new buildings replaced older ones . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 11 | It was beginning to be light and swallows , gathering to fly away , were noisy and busy round the eaves . |
| 12 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |
| 13 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Culturally , too , there were signs that Europe was beginning to be receptive again , as she had not since the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was beginning to be clear there was something fearful about her mother . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By the 1960s , however , the ‘ success ’ of the existing social formation was beginning to be called into question in various ways . |
| 22 | Outside , Marxist socialism was beginning to be given attention by orators , and syndicalist trade unionists were beginning to flex their industrial muscles . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 25 | Thus the ideology of the Church , in addition to its power as an institution , was beginning to be challenged . |
| 26 | Food was beginning to be in seriously short supply , the black market was flourishing ever more strongly , new orders and threats emanated continually from the Germans , and Allied air raids were frequent . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , it was beginning to be apparent that the decline in the birth rate would radically affect these calculations . |
| 29 | Such an idea was beginning to be put forward at least as early as the 1720s . |
| 30 | I was beginning to be afraid … ’ |