Example sentences of "[was/were] moving in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he added that , with three-quarters of the company 's business now overseas , foreign exchange rates were moving in the right direction . |
| 2 | But he added that , with three-quarters of the company 's business now overseas , foreign exchange rates were moving in the right direction . |
| 3 | He warned Margaret Thatcher , as she prepares for a Commonwealth heads of government conference next week where the issue of sanctions on South Africa is expected to be central , against insisting that ‘ the regime ’ was moving in the right direction . |
| 4 | With most of 1962 and 1963 taken up with stage , television and film work , Crawford could reflect that his career was moving in the right direction . |
| 5 | The policeman and a colleague stopped the van ‘ for no other reason than it was moving in the early hours of the morning , ’ a detective at the scene said . |
| 6 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 7 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |