Example sentences of "[noun sg] be just beginning [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just as the nights are getting lighter when the sights of spring are just beginning to show . |
| 2 | There are depths to the Inspiral Carpets that even the band are just beginning to find out about . |
| 3 | The effect from the Sunday Express article is just beginning to wane slightly and a boost now would be absolutely terrific and see us right through to Christmas . |
| 4 | The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse . |
| 5 | The time was ripe for such an approach , because progress in chemistry was just beginning to make possible the effective study of very large molecules such as those that formed the main constituents of chromatin . |
| 6 | It was indeed a bay , a vast expanse of ribbed brown sand over which the water was just beginning to creep , a gleaming line on the outer edge . |
| 7 | It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along . |
| 8 | A need for new policies in that area was just beginning to become apparent at the end of the century , as scientific surveys and journalistic investigations charted the existence of severe problems of poverty caused by factors , in particular sickness and old age , largely outside individual control . |
| 9 | The beer was just beginning to turn a little sour in his stomach , and his bladder felt very full . |
| 10 | ‘ The poor man was just beginning to pull round after his operation , ’ Keelan said . |
| 11 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |
| 12 | Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation . |
| 13 | Their social and economic pre-eminence was just beginning to seem more precarious and they wholeheartedly welcomed vigorous confirmation of the regime 's commitment to the status quo . |
| 14 | Faced with this unprecedented , unique and , above all , fearsomely complex challenge , the West is just beginning to come up with an unprecedented , unique , and also fearsomely complex response . |
| 15 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats would compound the centralisation from which the education system is just beginning to break away . |
| 16 | It was introduced to the market at just the right time , when demand for coloured sinks of complex shape that could be integrated into an overall design scheme was just beginning to emerge . |
| 17 | The company had seated themselves again , and conversation was just beginning to resume , when there came an authoritative rapping of knuckles upon wood and M. Dupont had risen to his feet . |
| 18 | ‘ In those days , the new psychology was just beginning to make itself felt in the circles I most frequented in Oxford , ’ he told readers of the 1950 reprint of Dymer . |
| 19 | The idea was just beginning to catch on in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run . |
| 20 | The Kylie and Jason myth was just beginning to grow , and the ‘ love-birds ’ themselves did n't exactly mind the attention . |
| 21 | Isolated 14-day rudiments were incubated in 0.25% trypsin , 0.02% EDTA for 5min , or until the outer mesenchymal capsule was just beginning to dissociate . |
| 22 | The heart shape that is characteristic of a barn owl 's face was just beginning to show through . |
| 23 | Nizan 's communist novels , produced within this global historical framework , may consequently be contextualised in the following manner : ( a ) Antoine Bloye , written between 1931 and 1933 , was produced at a moment of sectarian cultural politics , a moment when the French communist party was just beginning to emerge from political isolationism , a moment when the French working class was just beginning to reassert itself . |
| 24 | Nizan 's communist novels , produced within this global historical framework , may consequently be contextualised in the following manner : ( a ) Antoine Bloye , written between 1931 and 1933 , was produced at a moment of sectarian cultural politics , a moment when the French communist party was just beginning to emerge from political isolationism , a moment when the French working class was just beginning to reassert itself . |
| 25 | Through the haze , Bolton Castle was just beginning to show itself across the dale , square and massive . |