Example sentences of "[verb] in by [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council of Ministers ( members of which had been proposed in December 1989 — see p. 37116 ) was also sworn in by the new Chief Justice , Hans Berker . |
| 2 | It will be interesting to see whether Japanese management practices likely to be brought in by the new top management will work in an environment where aggressive individual success , rather than collaborative teamwork has been the norm . |
| 3 | He thought the cannabis was being shipped in by a small-time Dutch gangster trying to muscle in on the Amsterdam syndicate . |
| 4 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 5 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 6 | He had got used to being in this room , shut in by the four scrawled walls , the sloping ceiling and the unrelenting noise . |
| 7 | This steep , narrow , 800 metres couloir , hemmed in by the famous Gervasutti Pillar and the Three Points Pillar , and first climbed by Boivin and Gabarrou in 1975 , had always held a tremendous mystique for me . |
| 8 | Grégoire was now hemmed in by the tiny precarious wine table . |
| 9 | Hemmed in by the vast Libyan and Arabian deserts to west and east , there was little room to expand , and densely populated stable communities developed in a fertile environment that encouraged political organisation and the emergence of a new level of civilisation . |
| 10 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |