Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 2 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
| 3 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 4 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
| 5 | After a while Strawberry ended by saying , " We 're nearly at the great burrow now , but we 're corning in by a different way . " |
| 6 | IF you 're tied in to a high mortgage rate it might be worth your while doing the switch . |
| 7 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
| 8 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
| 9 | Changing machines means a new contract , so the company are locked in for a fresh term , again of up to nine years . |
| 10 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 11 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 12 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
| 13 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
| 14 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'll be carried in inside a cardboard cake . ’ |
| 16 | Here , we are concerned with the former , relaxed and floppy , with huge jackets as comfortable as cardigans and roomy trousers designed to be tugged in with a sturdy leather belt . |
| 17 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 18 | And indeed he would , very shortly , be going in to a great , gaping hole in the community . |
| 19 | In a public library authority this can require all titles from all service points to be called in to a central point and their condition checked and compared . |
| 20 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 21 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 22 | Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period . |
| 23 | Still , I should be coming in for a tidy sum of compensation . |
| 24 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 25 | The way that we 've found it in this this year 's Liberal Democrat Conference was to actually put forward the suggestion that Regional Government could be brought in in a flexible sense . |
| 26 | Second , he claims , it has access to supplementary business , management and technical skills — for example , consultants can be brought in from a centralised pool for any particularly specialised work . |
| 27 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 28 | The literature review will be set in to a general policy context of recent developments in the UK vocational training field . |
| 29 | SNOOKER champion John Parrott , Rugby League star Jonathan Davies and comedian Ken Dodd will be dropping in to a major conference in Liverpool next week . |
| 30 | Instead of lawn … ruler-straight path … shrubs ( all of which can be taken in at a single glance , and are as individual as frozen pizzas ) , why not make the eye work ? |