Example sentences of "[verb] in [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 2 | This creative period was followed by an exploitive period in which many theoretical physicists moved in to apply the new mechanics to a host of significant problems . |
| 3 | Rex waded in to hold the struggling arms apart . |
| 4 | Effective safeguards could be built in to prevent the inflationary dangers inherent in parallel currency systems , particularly in that the central banks of all member states would be obliged to repurchase their own currencies from the EMF for hard currencies . |
| 5 | Excluding the para-military National Guard , they number only 4,400 , whereas the normal US garrison of about 10,000 men had already been augmented to 13,000 before airborne units parachuted in to secure the international airport and clear the way for further reinforcements . |
| 6 | People are flooding in to get the exceptional bargains on offer , ’ said a House of Fraser spokesman . |
| 7 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 8 | The INLA has also revamped in the past two months and is posing a new threat in North Belfast , where 80 RUC officers have been drafted in to halt the escalating spiral of violence . |
| 9 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 10 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
| 11 | At Moss Green , GIST was called in to address the second-year class before they made craft mini-options , to stress how important it was for girls to consider getting a grounding in technology . |
| 12 | Sometimes the sheriff , that medieval ‘ maid-of-all-work ’ , was called in to restrain the oppressive conduct of the Forest wardens . |
| 13 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 14 | Was n't that the time when the Bank of England stepped in to avoid the whole City suffering ? |
| 15 | The chairman was alerted and he stepped in to fly the wayward duo into Manchester . |
| 16 | The Finns needed pilots badly and volunteers from many nations flooded in to join the Finnish Air Force , Asa among them . |
| 17 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
| 18 | Marxist , Plekhanov , was brought in to defend the traditional position of the Polish Socialist Party against this impertinent young woman , Rosa Luxemburg ( in Vorwärts , 23 July 1896 ) . |
| 19 | Inhutani II has been brought in to replace the multinational Scott company , which pulled out of the project at the end of 1989 after an intensive campaign by environmental groups , centred around the Women 's Environmental Network and Survival International . |
| 20 | Leeds , though , had good spells and 37-year-old Day , their goalkeeping coach brought in to replace the injured John Lukic , said : ‘ City were n't four goals better than us but the players need a rest . |
| 21 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 22 | New dealers are then brought in to replace the dishonoured ones . |
| 23 | When a purpose-designed cap was brought in to replace the humble condom , it was reported that the mine-laying frogmen were less than happy , having regarded the prior item as something of a ‘ perk ’ of the job . |
| 24 | Thus fire may well spread throughout the height of the rack before sufficient sprinklers have been brought in to ensure the general control of the fire zone . |
| 25 | These are the inhabitants of the second country contained within Panama : the poor slum dwellers of Colon and Panama City , many of them black ( and many still English-speaking ) , descendants of the Caribbean workers brought in to build the inter-oceanic means of communication , first the railway , then the canal . |
| 26 | These ‘ duty orders ’ were to be brought in to match the varying rates at which authorities became ready to take on such responsibilities . |
| 27 | Most of us probably think that the dole is what you live on when you 're unemployed , a statutory right which was brought in to bury the hated means test of the 1930s However , when the modern national insurance system was introduced in 1948 unemployment benefit was still not expected to be sufficient to maintain a wageless man with wife and children ; it was an arbitrary figure which could be topped up . |
| 28 | Through his binoculars , Campana now watched a counter-attack go in to retake the lost trenches , led by a young lieutenant of his class at St. Cyr , wearing white gloves . |
| 29 | His mother had stepped in to fill the embarrassed silence . |
| 30 | But management at Redworth Hall hotel , near Heighington , have stepped in to offer the delighted couple a top suite and romantic candlelit meal to celebrate Valentine 's Day in style . |