Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 2 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 3 | Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive . |
| 4 | The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying . |
| 5 | I mean there is extra heating requirement in buildings which are cooled much faster when they are subject to high winds , but I think we can see these coming up in the next ten , fifteen years we will start to see these . |
| 6 | booking on his own at the moment , three hundred pounds on bookings he 's got , coming up in the next three weeks |
| 7 | Do I come running out in the first ten seconds ? |
| 8 | Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published . |