Example sentences of "beginning to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These sentiments are beginning to be echoed by others in similar positions . |
| 4 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 5 | The pattern of the 1970s and the 1980s was already beginning to be woven on the warp of America and the woof of the European continent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The story of their latest protests is beginning to be pieced together from documents brought by travellers to Hong Kong and the West . |
| 8 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 9 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 14 | Now that Czechoslovakia is stepping out of the Stalinist ice-box , nationalist voices in Slovakia are beginning to be heard again . |
| 15 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 16 | Premiums are beginning to be waived , and three month rent holidays are being offered to try and speed up movement . |
| 17 | In this country , which has no serious experience of genuine fascism , the word ‘ fascist ’ is beginning to be applied to anyone who does not accept the statutory myth of the ‘ multi-racial society ’ , imposed on us by successive governments who have even contrived to make any open , honest discussion of it illegal . |
| 18 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 19 | The varied needs of carers were beginning to be taken seriously . |
| 20 | The value of the kind of team approach which operates in Jamkhed is beginning to be recognized in other rural areas in India . |
| 21 | Currently there are no universally accepted standards for environmental auditors to work toward , although they are beginning to be developed . |
| 22 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 23 | General knowledge quizzes of the trivial pursuit type are useful money raisers but are so popular that they are beginning to be dominated by teams that take an almost professional approach to the game . |
| 24 | He 's beginning to be a real pain . |
| 25 | But with the end of the Cold War , Western imperialist intervention under the guise of ‘ fighting Communism ’ is beginning to be laid bare , and the Allies in the Gulf are being exposed as never before . |
| 26 | British companies are beginning to be more aware of the needs of their disabled employees , and the potential benefits of continuing their employment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When Jessie was again seated and her anger was deflated , Agnes said , ‘ How … how far is it , really ? ’ and Jessie drooped her head as she muttered , ‘ Three months or so , and it 's beginning to be … be prominent . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Coaching is also beginning to be recognized as an essential tool which has to be developed systematically , not left to chance or the interest of a few concerned managers . |