Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land .
2 Despite the fact that winter will soon be drawing in , many of you will , no doubt , be taking the opportunity for a late holiday in the sun and looking for suitably cool tops to pack in your suitcases .
3 Jessica and James Kernan are hoping to keep up with international successes and will be competing in tomorrow 's Grand Prix .
4 A number of Ulster riders will be competing in today 's opening round of the Supercup series at Oulton Park .
5 One of the main practical impacts of the TransAction system is that almost all the conveyancing is now dealt with before exchange of contracts , and this means that the tasks that have to be undertaken in between exchange and completion are relatively minor , thereby reducing the average time between exchange and completion to two weeks or even less .
6 If no sand filter is installed , then for pump-fed filters it should be plumbed in so that it intercepts water before it enters the chamber(s) .
7 Only wise predators can be broken in .
8 So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability .
9 UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January
10 With a payment under covenant , The Deed of Covenant has to be filled in corrected before a payment is made .
11 The routine sheets should be filled in each week or whenever the weight is increased .
12 When building timber steps , these treads can be filled in with compacted soil , finishing off with bark chippings .
13 The actual weight at the end of each month can then be filled in as the weight control regime progresses .
14 In the Registrar 's office there are forms to be filled in and information to be provided .
15 This is because the original master-lacquer had three extra drive-holes , which had to be filled in before the stampers could be made .
16 If you have n't seen an example , ask to be shown the form and how it should be filled in .
17 Registers tend to be filled in , often to a pattern , sometimes in advance , whereas actual attendance , particularly in rural areas may be far more sporadic than indicated , while in certain communities ( as with nomads such as the Kenya Turkana or Moslem communities suspicious of the corrupting influence of western schools on their children ) it is not uncommon to find considerable numbers of pupils who are on the roll , but attend sporadically and unwillingly .
18 Not a person but some essence of person , person distilled and condensed into simply cock , without profession or prejudice , unremembering : a human blank to be filled in by whatever image of selfhood and otherness will be satisfied in that strangest , most complete of intimacies .
19 We had to dig out every day , and if you did n't hurry getting water and bringing the cattle out to drink , the path you had just made would be filled in again .
20 If you receive an application form as a response to a job application or as a preliminary to an interview it should be filled in and returned promptly .
21 Large empty pads of white paper lay waiting to be filled in .
22 It is sometimes known as a factotum title , since it was designed for general use , leaving the volume number to be filled in .
23 He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen .
24 Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line .
25 The general idea with pro-formas is that they should be filled in as the procedure progresses in order to qualify as ‘ notes made at the time ’ .
26 The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable .
27 Some mothers will be too disorganized to do this : either they may demonstrate a lack of concern about the problem or the stresses at home may be too great for it to be filled in reliably .
28 The Advanced Directive , or ‘ living will ’ , could be filled in by anyone over the age of 18 and lodged with their GP .
29 The northern half of the piazza , which was left at a lower level to accommodate a pedestrian subway ( unbuilt as yet ) to the nearby Forum des Halles shopping centre , will be filled in .
30 The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself .
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