Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 2 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 3 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 4 | Developing countries have been climbing hard throughout the 1980s , only to see the summit receding farther up beyond the clouds . |
| 5 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 6 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 7 | Also more roadworks may well affect your journey to the north of Enstone on the A43 , that 's because of some resurfacing work , and if you 're travelling through on the 417 at East Hendred er near the Hare public house , there 's more temporary signals in operation too this evening . |
| 8 | Yeah yeah yeah and they they 're coming back with the three separate quotes . |
| 9 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 10 | Japanese emigrants had been going abroad since the 1880s , the majority of them to Hawaii , then an independent kingdom . |
| 11 | Whilst there may well be every justification for such developments , which have been growing steadily since the 1950s but with increasing rapidity over the last decade , these emphases do undermine the notion of RBs as being wholly concerned with liberal adult education . |
| 12 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 13 | As the ballot papers are going out on the twenty sixth ? |
| 14 | For years , sewage solids have been coming ashore between the two Forth bridges . |
| 15 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 16 | I 'm looking forward to the 100 metres . ’ |
| 17 | She 'd explained that he 'd be staying away for the two nights , which he 'd never done before ; she only hoped she 'd explained it well enough . |
| 18 | As a power in the land , America 's unions have been fading fast since the 1970s . |
| 19 | In the sandy soils under General Ripper 's airbase , as in aquifers throughout the agricultural Europe , the ‘ time bomb ’ of nitrate pollution has been ticking away since the 1950s . |
| 20 | Similarly , if you are lagging behind at the 30 seconds ' bell , it is not too late for you to win the bout . |
| 21 | ‘ If things were going smoothly between the two of you then I doubt you would be here now , but they 're not , are they ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ See here m'am , you were doing well over the fifty-five mandatory . |
| 23 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 24 | He was a favourite with the fans at Scarborough and is looking forward to the eight matches over the month . ’ |
| 25 | The 16-year-old pony is well known on the Irish circuit and Roger is looking forward to the 1993 season with his new purchase . |
| 26 | Anything over that , you know mine is going up towards the seven into the red . |
| 27 | I do hope you and Per and the girls are well , and that work is going satisfactorily for the two of you and studies likewise for them . |
| 28 | City fans are still livid over the clash with Bull that led to skipper Steve Walsh 's sending off in the 3-0 defeat at Molineux three weeks ago . |
| 29 | We 'll time to find out what 's coming up on the six thirty edition of the show . |
| 30 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |