Example sentences of "[noun pl] be only just beginning [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 2 | All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon . |
| 3 | These comments may seem to apply only to the large international manufacturing corporation , but nowadays there is no business so small that it is immune to the effects of international competition , and many service businesses are only just beginning to feel these effects . |
| 4 | ‘ Our education reforms are only just beginning to bite , ’ he said . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Our education reforms are only just beginning to bite . |
| 6 | Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries . |
| 7 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |