Example sentences of "in [pos pn] dying day " in BNC.
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| 1 | When so many different strands of opinion oppose privatisation — a view that will undoubtedly be expressed today — is it not stupid for the Government to introduce the Bill in their dying days ? |
| 2 | Bumbler the man might be , but his unaffected tenderness reminded Agnew of the care he had lavished on his own wife in her dying days . |
| 3 | The magazine 's line on such matters would also appear to be remote from , and distinctly harder than , that taken in its dying days by the Reagan Administration . |
| 4 | SAVING the punchline till last , just about the best joke of a pretty unfunny decade comes in its dying days . |
| 5 | SAVING the punchline till last , just about the best joke of a pretty unfunny decade comes in its dying days . |
| 6 | IN ITS dying days , the British government has given the go-ahead for a controversial plan to build another oil refinery on Canvey Island in the Thames estuary . |
| 7 | Top Of The Pops , reported to be in its dying days , trailed in as the seventh best TV programme . |