Example sentences of "[conj] be [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 2 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of us have passed the first part of our exam , and are working on the second . |
| 4 | The horse is leaving ‘ home ’ so make sure that he is going forward and is concentrating on the first fence ahead . |
| 5 | A stronger possibility was that Lorton had left something which incriminated Dougal on or around the body , and was relying on the next passer-by to report the corpse to the police . |