Example sentences of "fit in [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 2 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 3 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
| 4 | And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements . |
| 5 | Many areas have special schemes which fit in with the particular needs of individual people at home . |
| 6 | In his 1959 essay " The English School in a Democracy " Bateson outlines the characteristics of the kind of trained mind he envisages , which seem to fit in with the mental attitudes and orientations most suited to the democratic process . |
| 7 | Miracles are supposed to fit in with the unscientific views of the ancients , but not with out own scientific views . |
| 8 | He concludes that the effectiveness of a given system should be based on its ability to fit in with the external systems making up its environment on the one hand , and , on the other hand , on its competence in allowing its own sub-systems to fit in with each other . |
| 9 | For example , he was working out the exposition of the melodic cells which are the basis of most of the movement , so that his use of contradicting notes had to fit in with the melodic intervals , which were probably his primary concern . |
| 10 | The notion of a routine , of a particular time for meals , baths , bed for young children — to fit in with the other interests and commitments of parents working outside the home — is not especially important . |
| 11 | Two of the five vessels being built for Olsen are designed to comply with this legislation , and this , says Parker , will give it a proven ability to fit in with the new requirements . |
| 12 | The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day . |
| 13 | Animals may avoid being eaten by active flight , as do moths escaping from bats ; by camouflage , which requires behavioural adaptations to fit in with the visual markings ; by warning coloration , to teach predators to avoid sickening prey ; by mimicry of successfully warning-coloured species ; or by aggregation in groups , such as the schools of fish . |
| 14 | Where does yours fit in to the various classifications — or do you have a baby who 's a mixture of several ? |
| 15 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 16 | CIBS ’ , its just the little matter of hairy legs that just might not fit in with the ra-ra skirts … ) |
| 17 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |