Example sentences of "in on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 2 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 3 | Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer . |
| 4 | The carcasses were left to rot : vultures and buzzards patrolled the sky , homing in on tattered wings . |
| 5 | Some weapons home in on infra-red sources , some on radar , others just go where they are told . |
| 6 | Natural predators , sparrowhawk and kestrel , swoop in on regular raids and the garden is visited by fox and weasel . |
| 7 | Additional ‘ close-look ’ equipment could also close in on international crises and warn of military and guerilla movements . |
| 8 | We always get lots of punters in on New Year 's Eve . |
| 9 | Yeah , I just Like cashing in on other people 's misery . |
| 10 | The new dispenser system is set to be phased in on other BNFL sites at a later date . |
| 11 | So am I am I right in thinking that the western relief road is catering for a north south through traffic element , but its primary purpose is to provide relief to the main e the present A sixty one which runs through the centre of Harrogate and again would seek to distribute traffic around the network and bring it in on other radial roads from the West for example ? |
| 12 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |
| 13 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 14 | The one-sided affair ought to have seen the hosts cash in on early superiority , even before Booth struck in the 31st minute to break the deadlock with a well-placed glancing header off Darren Ferguson 's corner . |
| 15 | CASHING IN ON GOOD WORKS |
| 16 | They can cash in on good ideas from staff and benefit from many small improvements and occasional large leaps forward . |
| 17 | Whether by luck or careful management , Callaghan 's administration looked much more credible now , and many expected him to call an autumn election in 1978 to cash in on favourable economic and political trends and , against all the odds , snatch another term of power . |
| 18 | Mr Salem said there was an enormous increase in French , Dutch and Spanish shoppers cashing in on favourable exchange rates . |
| 19 | With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid , over-25s , the development in the ad industry of ‘ psychogeographics ’ ( the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics — i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans ) , and the construction of bands in the studio , pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the ‘ left ’ . |
| 20 | Although the contact was more social than professional , the two inevitably talked shop when they met , and as Coleman zeroed in on al-Kassar as possibly the key player in the Middle East 's narco-terrorist game , he decided to visit Mayer in his office at the German Embassy one day to see if his friend could be persuaded to take a more generous view of international cooperation than Hurley 's . |
| 21 | US job saviours drop in on European ‘ flagship ’ |
| 22 | As the advancing British , Soviet and Yugoslav forces closed in on southern Austria , this left enormous numbers of fugitives being squeezed into an ever smaller area . |
| 23 | Well I went in a choir , I could never sing , and I still ca n't , and er the choir used to go out quite a lot , and er we cycled and we youth-hostelled , even as w or in on working parties , at some of the peak hostels . |
| 24 | Deborah Levy drops in on Canadian maestro Robert Lepage , suspended between worlds in his solo show |
| 25 | Serbs close in on Muslim stronghold |
| 26 | Once under way , they got to burst plastic bags , twirl lengths of gaily coloured plastic tubing , blow on plastic whistles and kazoos , join in on occasional chanted lines , and generally commit mayhem . |
| 27 | Chelsea close in on Russian |
| 28 | That 's if we 'd gone in on fixed price on scaled fee |
| 29 | Homing in on fixed rate offers |
| 30 | We can not simply allow ourselves to cash in on private sector industry at the expense of the many unemployed and low-paid whose living standards will inevitably decline as a result of the spiralling costs of wholesale privatisation . |