Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If we can get out from behind pride , we can begin to see with genuine appreciation the efforts and accomplishments of other people .
2 It is only natural that you may begin to worry about possible infertility if conception does not occur immediately .
3 So metropolitan councils , and here 's where the confusions begin to creep in metropolitan councils and some non-metropolitan councils , I E district councils so they 're in a separate ca separate category with this electoral sequence .
4 By 14h AEL , gluRs begin to localize to neuromuscular contact sites which prefigure the mature NMJs ( Fig. 2 ) ; a phenomenon predominantly , perhaps exclusively , attributable to the lateral movement of previously unlocalized receptors .
5 As children begin to participate in daily tasks , they gradually leave the mixed gender pack of children to join the company of young people who are of their own gender .
6 Only if this latter requirement is met can we begin to talk of linguistic competence .
7 Normal scientists begin to engage in philosophical and metaphysical disputes and try to defend their innovations , of dubious status from the point of view of the paradigm , by philosophical arguments .
8 Indeed , people begin to talk about under-developed Britain , or under-developing Britain , so that we now do n't see this sharp division between British problems as a developed country , and developing countries ' problems in Zambia , or Chile , or wherever , or India .
9 Furthermore the British people might begin to clamour for drastic changes in foreign policy if they were asked to undergo yet more austerity .
10 If they fear Chaos , they begin to mutate in horrible and painful ways .
11 It is also now an independent body , and can begin to look for new ways to finance itself and improve its amenities .
12 Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs .
13 In other words the members would also begin to collaborate on foreign policy matters .
14 Mar Lodge has proved that even the most intransigent of ministers will begin to bend to public pressure .
15 It 's just that the costs involved in a lot of peasants being killed and you then begin to encroach on middle peasants .
16 Once a CFE treaty was signed talks should begin to build on additional measures including ones to limit manpower in Europe ; a commitment would be given at the time of signature of the CFE treaty concerning the manpower levels of a unified Germany .
17 When you begin to read about contemporary nursing practice you will soon become familiar with the issues surrounding the ‘ exercise of professional accountability ’ .
18 There is also a slippage control which automatically cuts power if the wheels begin to spin under harsh acceleration .
19 As data begin to accumulate on daily food requirements of different species , we can test more fine-grained hypotheses .
20 The basis of these theories lies in recognition of the fact that because of the impact of differing levels of productivity or the existence of internal and external economies of scale it is perfectly feasible that economic benefits begin to accumulate in particular regions of an economy and become self-perpetuating .
21 Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women .
22 ‘ As I watch , ’ she wrote , ‘ and it gradually gets later , I can begin to understand about different lights and see colours in the scene which I never before would have imagined … ’
23 This is the level at which the focus should begin to shift from isolated language items to the real use of those items to convey a message .
24 Firms in those countries become the world leaders and begin to export as rising incomes spur demand elsewhere .
25 The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers .
26 Within some relationships , the two partners can begin to move in opposite directions .
27 By looking at these developing years and investigating the transformations which take place you are entering new territories which begin to examine in earnest the role of the media and the effects stereotyping which influences us all .
28 Students also might begin to cluster in little sub-cultures , small tribes united by a common interest which in due course would become institutionalized and formalized .
29 He goes on to say ‘ The pastness of the past , then , depends upon a historical sensibility which can hardly begin to operate without permanent written records ’ ( ibid . ) .
30 The relationship of literacy to these supposed changes from limited to more developed states is described in terms which implicitly tend towards determinism , despite explicit denials : literacy ‘ fosters ’ a ‘ spirit of enquiry ’ ( 1968 , p. 14 ) ; it ‘ can not but enforce ’ a more ‘ objective definition of what was and what is ’ ( ibid. p. 34 ) ; historical sensibility ‘ can hardly begin to operate without permanent written records ’ ( ibid. ) ; the existence of an elite group ‘ followed from the difficulty of the writing system ’ ( ibid. p. 37 ) ; ‘ logic ’ seemed to be ‘ a function of writing ’ ( 1977 , p. 11 ) etc .
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