Example sentences of "in by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cloth Fair was a narrow , gloomy street , hemmed in by tall Georgian buildings . |
| 2 | Entering St Jude 's Passage — her most direct approach to St Jude 's Square and the old market place which would lead her to Miss Dallam 's side of Frizingley — Cara was at once hemmed in by tall houses as sinister and insubstantial as shadows , tottering almost beneath a weight of sheer dilapidation and the load of displaced humanity they carried . |
| 3 | But this stress was only one of several strands in the ideological construction of the bourgeois family , for sexual choice was hemmed in by simultaneous emphases on property , the survival ( and even accentuation ) of a differentiated standard of morality , and the growth of the ideology of ‘ respectability ’ , with all its class connotations . |
| 4 | He proved that all 17,000 verses could be minutely inscribed on a piece of parchment 10.8 in by 8.4 in , which could then be folded up and placed in a walnut shell . |
| 5 | These can create even more stress on the individuals left with the burden , especially in the credit control department , where targets have to be met and cash pulled in by certain deadlines . |
| 6 | My being hemmed in by well-armed stalwarts , was part of the plan . |
| 7 | Do not be taken in by current usage . |
| 8 | And w half a day a w a week and had to be in by nine o'clock . |
| 9 | Hence applications must be in by nine weeks time , nine weeks hence at the very least . |
| 10 | The 300 surviving Uru Eu Wau Wau Indians , whose lands were opened up to outside exploitation by the road project , are said to be suffering from diseases brought in by illegal miners . |
| 11 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 12 | It is easy to assume that there was a gap in Darwin 's theory that would later be filled in by modern knowledge of heredity . |
| 13 | A survey has revealed nine out of ten properties in the area are unfit to live in by modern standards . |
| 14 | Over the last eight years , 27,000 quotations , on average , have been sent in by outside contributors each year . |
| 15 | Put it in by eleven . |
| 16 | I think good skin care is really important so I get sucked in by anti-wrinkle creams and things like that . |
| 17 | Come in by 8.30 Monday morning ’ . |
| 18 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 19 | He did n't say , ‘ Right , men — come in by twos , line up facing east and bang your foreheads on the floor ! ’ |
| 20 | Goshawk Squadron drifted in by twos and threes . |
| 21 | Fortunately she 'd learnt at a very early age never to be taken in by good looks alone . |
| 22 | We pass the desolate grounds of a school , fenced in by barbed wire and patches of trodden grass . |
| 23 | Others , including Sir Richard Lewkenor of West Dean , came in by that most profitable entrance in a chronically litigious society , the practice of law . |
| 24 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 25 | In fact if it was dry down to the band they would near take it in by that time , you with the bands round the middle ? |
| 26 | Thomas was quaking with giggles like a girl , but Harry would never again be so easily taken in by that , after this experience . |
| 27 | ‘ You did warn us against being taken in by that in one of your lectures , sir , ’ said Tommy . |
| 28 | There may be a handful of key employees brought in by that company to the location to establish the plant erm and to erm recruit and run the work force but my experience of these inquiries and prospective inquiries is that generally speaking they are looking to recruit labour locally and so this is not a housing generator type of development . |
| 29 | It is large and tall and difficult of access and to view due to its position in the centre of the town , closely hedged in by other buildings . |
| 30 | Pieces from continental Europe were brought in by other POETS group companies , and P&O Containers transported works from Japan and the USA . |