Example sentences of "in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frick idled his way along the corridor , looking in through various windows . |
| 2 | So there were two lower exchequers of receipt , in Westminster and in Oxford , during the years 1643–6 , although a large proportion of Parliament 's revenues came in through various ad hoc treasuries in the City of London , bypassing the Exchequer altogether . |
| 3 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 4 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the country was being flooded with rifles run in through French Somaliland with the connivance of French officials . |
| 6 | The man in the row in front arches backwards over his seat , his breath sucked in through clenched teeth . |
| 7 | The stroll in through open ventilators , and doors , or hitch a lift when you move plants from the garden into the greenhouse . |
| 8 | ‘ We found him in bed in his study , his face turned to the window , where the sun came streaming in through flowering plants … |
| 9 | Fresh water was brought in through leaden pipes built by Italian craftsmen , there were even privies , and underground streams cleaned the sewers . |
| 10 | Sgt Steve Atkinson said thieves walk in through unlocked back doors and snatch whatever they can . |
| 11 | On Dec. 17 Franz Vranitzky was sworn in as Federal Chancellor at the head of a " grand coalition " of his own Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) and the centre-right People 's Party ( ÖVP ) . |
| 12 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 13 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 14 | Their agreement made no mention , however , of the interim government led by academic and former opposition politician Amos Sawyer [ see pp. 31282 ; 32297 for his chairmanship of national constitutional commission in 1981-83 ; pp. 33322-23 ; 34146 for his arrest in August 1984 and subsequent detention while chairman of the Liberian People 's Party ] , who had been sworn in as Prime Minister on Nov. 22 under ECOWAS auspices . |
| 15 | On April 26 Esko Aho , 36 , was sworn in as Prime Minister of a four-party centre-right coalition . |
| 16 | On May 16 Edith Cresson , 57 , was sworn in as Prime Minister , replacing Michel Rocard . |
| 17 | Prime Minister : Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in as Prime Minister in March 1991 , and from October also held the portfolios of Defence , Establishment and Cabinet Division . |
| 18 | On July 13 Itzhak Rabin , chair of the Israel Labour Party since February , was sworn in as Prime Minister and announced the composition of his Cabinet . |
| 19 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 20 | Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December . |
| 21 | D. Ramachandran of the DMK was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 8 , replacing M. O. H. Farooq of Congress ( I ) . |
| 22 | On April 6 Churchill Alemao was sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a Progressive Democratic Front ( PDF ) government . |
| 23 | President 's rule , in force in Goa for 43 days , was lifted on Jan. 25 , when the leader of a breakaway group of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister . |
| 24 | Jayalalitha , the A-IADMK general secretary , was sworn in as Chief Minister on June 24 . |
| 25 | Meade , who had accused the Osborne administration of corruption and mismanagement and promised to restore honesty and integrity in government , was sworn in as Chief Minister on Oct. 10 . |
| 26 | President 's rule , which had been imposed in December after the PDF 's main component , the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , withdrew from the PDF , was lifted in late January 1991 and the leader of the breakaway MGP group , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister [ see p. 37915 ; 37964 ] . |
| 27 | The BJP defeated Congress ( I ) in State Assembly elections held in February 1990 ; Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as Chief Minister , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 28 | R. K. Dorendra Singh , sworn in as Chief Minister the same day , said that he would be able to secure a majority in the legislature within the specified time . |
| 29 | K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Oct. 9 to replace N. Janardhan Reddy , who resigned after the High Court ruled that permission to open a private medical college in Nellore , granted to Reddy 's wife , had been " vitiated by bias " . |
| 30 | In a classic Desmond manoeuvre , the big names were brought in as Ordinary shareholders for a total of £1m . |