Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her personal philosophy fits in well with a proactive and innovative polytechnic . |
| 2 | However , the guaranteed harmony of economic activity resulting either from a mechanistic or biological analogy fits in awkwardly with a Christian view of man and work . |
| 3 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 4 | Nonetheless it fits in beautifully with the black and white timber-framed houses and cottages which are so much part of the county . |
| 5 | This attractive hardwood conservatory has a steep pitched roof that blends in well with the gabled Elizabethan building behind . |
| 6 | In the example shown here , I used blackberry leaves , with Statice latifolium , or sea lavender , to make the outline more dainty , as its lovely grey-green colour blends in well with the pale green of the mount . |
| 7 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 8 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 9 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |