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 | So we home in on five thousand booklets . |
| 3 | The British bombardment on the Somme began on 24 June ( the infantry attack went in on 1 July ) and on that same day Falkenhayn stopped the massive flow of ammunition to Verdun and cancelled all reinforcements . |
| 4 | The Single Market comes in on 1 January 1993 . |
| 5 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The carcasses were left to rot : vultures and buzzards patrolled the sky , homing in on tattered wings . |
| 8 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 9 | Some weapons home in on infra-red sources , some on radar , others just go where they are told . |
| 10 | Natural predators , sparrowhawk and kestrel , swoop in on regular raids and the garden is visited by fox and weasel . |
| 11 | Additional ‘ close-look ’ equipment could also close in on international crises and warn of military and guerilla movements . |
| 12 | My son , he wrote , moving on to a new page , my son , who is a keen footballer and a passionate supporter of our local team , Brighton and Hove Albion ( the Seagulls ) , was surprised the other day when , looking in on one of the team 's training sessions in the sports pavilion of the University of Sussex , he . |
| 13 | They were OK in bursts but then they 'd stand in on one of their boring , self-indulgent , 20-minute solos . |
| 14 | Ruth had called to see Mrs Johnson , looked in on one or two of the other neighbours , and was halfway up the hill to the churchyard before Maria caught up with her . |
| 15 | This central area of the town — Hillgate , Millgate , the Underbanks , all names attested in the 15th century — does however retain both the medieval street plan and something of a medieval atmosphere , because of the narrow , twisting , hilly streets and the buildings crowding in on one another . |
| 16 | somebody homed in on one and then you would be back on your scaled fee for the |
| 17 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 18 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 19 | Sit in on one of my lessons . |
| 20 | He built Britain 's biggest theme park , bought the world 's largest listed building and has this week been shouldering in on one of Manchester Airport 's more unusual records . |
| 21 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 22 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 23 | He was n't sure he wanted to be in on such a dangerous idea . |
| 24 | As a result , Brown reckons that the two companies are eager to cash in on such a base to generate interest in their own products . |
| 25 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
| 26 | They might think to themselves , what is the most important thing for us to home in on first of all ? |
| 27 | We always get lots of punters in on New Year 's Eve . |
| 28 | Two of the Labour Party 's professorate homed in on two facets of the concept which seemed particularly appropriate for their party . |
| 29 | Yeah , if you do n't measure it the right way , and go all the way round there and say that he 's coming in on two hundred and twenty five degrees |
| 30 | She asked everybody and she said will you come in on two to ten . |