Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] fill the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His expression was bland , and he obviously had no intention of filling the damning silence . |
| 2 | Therefore he restated his belief in the discipline of enforced spending caps , called for congressional authorization for the elimination of 246 federally funded spending programmes , and repeated earlier calls for the President to be given a line-item veto in order to " end the annual ritual of filling the budget with pork-barrel appropriations " . |
| 3 | The only problem is that you ca n't get enough of this material in pills and capsules to provide enough bulk to have any realistically helpful effect in filling the stomach . |
| 4 | In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time . |
| 5 | During the summer , he had insulated the roof by filling the areas between the joists with glass fibre wool . |
| 6 | SCAMP speeds the process of filling the absences for the day and by 10am , the school has a complete map of absentees whom they can then begin to check on . |
| 7 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 8 | They also took the opportunity to fit a Packman to one side of the sprayer to end the chore of filling the sprayer manually for ever . |
| 9 | Apart from the chance of filling the glass case , Fionn also has large stocks of more traditionally sized Highland trout , averaging 8-I2oz , and as on Loch Assynt , large baskets are the rule rather than the exception . |
| 10 | Try the following two fillings ( they can both be prepared a day in advance and refrigerated ) , but wait until the last minute before filling the choux buns to prevent the pastry going soggy . |
| 11 | The continuing Research Centre will play an important part in filling the gap . |
| 12 | People who place great importance on the goals of autonomy , creativity and growth will have no difficulty in filling the paper . |
| 13 | It was a good contest that will have given the England team manager Geoff Cooke at least one hint about filling the vacant places in his training squad for Lanzarote in the new year . |
| 14 | None of these posts has been filled , and it is now short of 27 professionals out of a complement of 119 — with little immediate prospect of filling the vacancies . |
| 15 | Hemmed in by restrictions in the UK and thwarted at every turn when it tries to expand overseas , British Telecommunications Plc faces steady erosion of its UK business as competition increases with no immediate prospect of filling the hole from abroad — so how can the company avoid slumping into persona of a dull , low-growth utility ? |
| 16 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 17 | The over-rim supply bidet has pillar taps or a mixer tap mounted on the rim , and the through-rim supply bidet has a stream of hot water , which heats the rim before filling the bowl , and may have a douching spray in the base of the bowl as well . |
| 18 | In addition to filling the significant gap which has arisen because this group falls in between the usual area specializations ( Turkish/Anatolian and Caucasian ) the project will also contribute to several fields of current debate within economic anthropology and ethnic studies . |
| 19 | The Reform Act 1832 had , however , widened the franchise to such an extent that it was no longer feasible to ensure Parliament 's compliance by filling the Commons with placemen . |
| 20 | drunk with the effort of filling the air-beds |
| 21 | The benefits from the completion of the road are great but in order for these benefits to be enjoyed the roadmaker has to invest effort in filling the hole . |
| 22 | Anyway , ethnicity is one way of filling the empty containers of nationalism . |
| 23 | He was Pakistan 's first Punjabi Prime Minister and the first industrialist to hold the office , breaking with the tradition of filling the post with a member of the powerful ( and generally Sindhi ) landowning classes . |
| 24 | If they did , then because of her strategic position , because of her great extra-European interests and because of the problem of filling the vacuum left by her withdrawal from the Balkans , the fate of Turkey would once again involve the interests of all the great powers . |
| 25 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
| 26 | Pathé discs adopted the idea of filling the engraved letters with white ( 30 ) , but Edison 's ‘ Diamond Discs ’ did not ( 32 ) . |
| 27 | But the designer must not go too far in the other direction by filling the schedule with deeply sensitive and thought-provoking questions so that the respondent is exhausted after a short period . |
| 28 | Give the pawnbroker the brooch — to get it go E , SW after filling the van , and SAY TO WOMAN ‘ HELLO ’ . |
| 29 | Shunned by much of the old left , the new recruits had proved more than up to the task of filling the gaps . |