Example sentences of "just beginning to be " in BNC.

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1 Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated .
2 While school education was just beginning to be suspected of extravagance , in the early sixties , paradoxically there was an explosion of growth in university education .
3 Feminist cinema may be a ‘ global issue ’ , in Susan Hayward 's words , too large and bumpy and may be possible to argue that in theoretical and critical terms the truly global issues of a multi-racial international feminism are only just beginning to be addressed .
4 The Cadbury report is a masterpiece of brevity , but its full scope and implications are just beginning to be realised .
5 Heavily wooded hills climbed high above the railway line , dotted with small villages just beginning to be bathed in the warm light of the rising sun .
6 In 1786 , when the true age of man was only just beginning to be appreciated , Anglo-Saxon remains were first identified as such .
7 The complexities of later family life are just beginning to be recognised with studies of inter-generational caring relationships ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ; Abrams and Marsden , 1987 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) .
8 The ability to display airframes and artifacts within such a building is only just beginning to be capitalised upon by NAM .
9 That there were many factors to be considered is shown by the fact that in 1880 the depression was only just beginning to be felt by industry , while it had already hit agriculture badly .
10 The conditions for the crossing were not much worse than for the criminals who were just beginning to be shipped across from England in the 1670s , and the death rates were not much higher .
11 It is thought to be unlikely that the action will be settled out of court , and prospects of a rapprochement between the OSF and Sun — that were just beginning to be talked about ( UX No 379 , 380 ) — now appear remote .
12 Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see .
13 If this is a correct analysis of the situation , the consequences for our disciplines may be far-reaching in unexpected ways which are only just beginning to be noticed .
14 For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum .
15 The flowers bloomed happily in the soft sunshine , complemented by the gently swaying leaves of the trees , which were just beginning to be touched by the colours of autumn .
16 The implications of these patterns , elucidated principally by Bill Cummins and others , are only just beginning to be appreciated .
17 These contradictions will be marked in the work produced under these conditions in ways that we are only just beginning to be able to imagine .
18 Although the stark trees were just beginning to be in leaf , and familiarity had lessened the menacing air of the place , Theda still found herself uncomfortable within it .
19 It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after .
20 Although the gross changes in the brain that accompany and probably cause it can be studied after the death of the patient , the details of the disease process are just beginning to be worked out in animals by studying the microscopic structure of the brain regions that are principally involved together with their biochemistry and their neurotransmitters .
21 Yes they have , very special gear in , in breathing apparatus and protective clothing , er which I did n't have in my early days , I mean breathing apparatus was just beginning to be used .
22 Oh they 're just beginning to be I always feel by the time they 're eight weeks
23 they 're just beginning to be here really .
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