Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] began to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 2 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fears soon began to be expressed that wines from the Midi too would again find their way back into Champagne cellars . |
| 8 | The previously unthinkable prospect of a non-academic career now began to be thought — with fear , dismay and bewilderment on Robyn 's part . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 . |