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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Price rises were ineffective unless they were so swingeing as to be ruinous.
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The conference kicked off with a swingeing attack on local government reform by Arthur Midwinter, professor of politics at Strathclyde University.
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The most immediate consequence was the swingeing repression carried out during the autumn and winter of 1934-5.
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There followed a swingeing series of letters between Rodrigo and Berenguer, in which each accused the other of treachery and cowardice.
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There will certainly be no complaints from her that far more swingeing penalties have now been introduced.
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Universities everywhere were in disarray, faced with swingeing cuts in their funding.