Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [be] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commiserations to all readers who were taken in by our April fool . |
| 2 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 3 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 4 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 5 | Each LEA has a supply of teachers who are sent in to schools to cover for absences of regular teaching staff . |
| 6 | There are the tensions too between the younger men : Li Peng and the ultra-left in the Beijing party apparatus are ranged against Jiang Zemin and the other provincial leaders who were brought in by Deng Xiaoping after June 1989 to try to limit the damage . |
| 7 | After the ceremony of the Wheel there was a firework display and people bought chips and hot-dogs from traders with vans who were cashing in on the occasion . |
| 8 | Bob Bennett , Grenadier Guards , was one of those frustrated warriors who were called in to a large marquee . |
| 9 | But now an MP is concerned that it 's the thieves who are cashing in by using the sales as clearing houses for stolen property . |