Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s . |
| 2 | This selectivity in the migration process appears to have intensified in the 1980s . |
| 3 | A doctor , Alvarez was alleged to have participated in the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar by helping to prolong the agent 's life so that the drug-traffickers who had captured him could continue to interrogate him . |
| 4 | Alvarez was alleged to have participated in the 1985 kidnap and murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) agent Enrique " Kiki " Camarena Salazar [ see p. 33967 ] . |
| 5 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 6 | Zina Garrison , perhaps one of the best known black tennis players to have emerged in the 1980's , recalls in John Feinstein 's book , Hard Courts , the incident in 1975 which first prompted her desire to reach the top . |
| 7 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 8 | A lot of people say , ‘ Oh how fantastic to have started in the Sixties . ’ |
| 9 | Spectacular rises in corn prices encouraged landlords to evict in order to farm themselves , a process which led to the creation of despoblados ; middling tenants refused to sublet and a wave of rent rises seems to have started in the 1760's . |
| 10 | The number of institutions in London which can reasonably be considered private banks seems to have doubled in the fifty years between 1725 and 1775 to reach fifty-two . |
| 11 | Football : Brazil scratch seven-year itch : Paddy Agnew in Rome on a match which many Italian fans would like to see repeated in the 1990 World Cup final |