Example sentences of "were only just beginning [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wounds Giles had inflicted were only just beginning to heal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " We were only just beginning to listen to Bach " , said one Iranian businessman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 6 | All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon . |
| 7 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |