Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But to be faced with the short-term threat of redundancy at the hands of private contractors brought in by the health authority would mean that they might feel subject to a considerable degree of provocation .
2 Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula .
3 Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters .
4 Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time .
5 It is simply not safe to have radios on the side of the bath , or electrical heaters plugged in to the bathroom in winter , or to sit in the bath while shaving with an electric razor .
6 He revealed that the boy was only one of 135 juveniles taken in during the inquiry .
7 After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] .
8 Although as a breed pension providers act very conservatively , and moreover , your money would be protected under the strict rules brought in by the Financial Services Act , no one can forecast with total confidence how well or otherwise any particular investment will do .
9 National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year .
10 New rules brought in by the National Rivers Authority outlaw many part-time fishermen and their small boats from traditional grounds between Flint and Mostyn .
11 In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts .
12 Other sounds caught in between the meaningless words .
13 Most of the latest casualties were civilians , shot by anti-riot forces sent in by the Kremlin , in advance of Monday 's Independence Day celebrations .
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