Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 2 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 3 | Looking back on a memorable 1991 , 26-year-old Roebuck thinks he was a very fortunate man . |
| 4 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 5 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 6 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 7 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 8 | Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various . |
| 9 | FAMILY records in Scotland dating back to the early 1800s have played an important role in an international effort to learn more about an inherited form of breast and ovarian cancer . |
| 10 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 11 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 12 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 13 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |
| 14 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 15 | Bicester is also a well known hunting centre with a hunt dating back to the late 1700s . |
| 16 | Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s . |
| 17 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 18 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 19 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 20 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 21 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 22 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 23 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 25 | The cut for the weekend was made at 156 , with 41 players going through to the final two rounds . |
| 26 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 27 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 28 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 29 | He analysed local government spending and labour-force figures in the post-war period leading up to the late 1970s . |
| 30 | Did you know that the average woman will have around 500 periods in her life , adding up to a staggering six and a half menstruating years ? |