Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 2 | Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture . |
| 5 | Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters . |
| 6 | Although the retailer may make no profit on that particular item , general sales will be increased as customers drawn in by the loss leader will then buy other goods . |
| 7 | During a debate on the dispute at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday , Steve Gazzard , an ambulance worker , said that by allowing arbitration , ministers would then ‘ repay their debt ’ to ambulancemen called in after the bombing during the Tory party conference which was held in the town in 1984 . |
| 8 | The consultants called in by the Home Office identify computers and information technology generally as the best way of saving time . |
| 9 | Enemy searchlights probed in from the sea , going out before a renewed burst of shelling and heavy machine-gun fire added to civilian casualties in the town . |
| 10 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 11 | The large troop reinforcements brought in during the strike were withdrawn . |
| 12 | Garlands of flowers and greenery have always been traditionally associated with May festivities , being used to decorate the trees brought in from the woods . |
| 13 | NME lensman Kevin Cummins is among the photographers featured in Down The Club , an exhibition of dance and nightclub culture taking place at Manchester Polytechnic 's Institute For Popular Culture until September 23 . |
| 14 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The curator-in-chief in charge of sculpture , Jean-René Gaborit , asked that the courtyards of the Richelieu wing be covered so that his department might at last have the space to show pieces from stores and also sculptures brought in from the Tuileries gardens and elsewhere , many of them suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | MOTORISTS will have to pay an extra £60 a year to keep their cars on the road under the measures brought in by the Chancellor . |
| 20 | Bair does not blame Sartre in any simplistic way , nor does she construct de Beauvoir as an innocent victim , but the relationship seems nevertheless exploitative , not only of de Beauvoir but also of the other ( always younger ) women drawn in to the couple 's sphere of influence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He revealed that the boy was only one of 135 juveniles taken in during the inquiry . |