Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Any gains made are locked in at the end of the quarter . |
| 32 | Core workers at Bhilai have regular employment , but for those on the periphery and in support industries , the work is casual , dangerous and ill-paid : factories , where women are locked in for the night ; opencast iron-ore mines where workers ' deaths by rock-falls are concealed by unscrupulous owners . |
| 33 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 34 | Agricultural details were a nice reciprocal touch : the Hind helicopters , with which the Sandinistas were destroying the contras , had allegedly been shipped in by the Russians in crates labelled agricultural produce . |
| 35 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 36 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 37 | During the last year before her furlough one hundred and seventeen new soldiers had been sworn in at the Howard corps . |
| 38 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 39 | The gift was by way of an invitation for the Prince and Princess both to become patrons of the appeal ; it was the idea of professional fund-raiser Marion Allford , who had been brought in as the appeal director . |
| 40 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 41 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 42 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |
| 43 | I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all . |
| 44 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 45 | ‘ So how shall your time be filled in at the barbecue ? ’ he queried with an unmistakable edge to his voice . |
| 46 | The form should be filled in with the completion time and date on the row{ Completed Date Time } below the row labelled{ 2 . |
| 47 | The form should be filled in with the completion time and date on the row } Completed Date Time{ below the row labelled } 2 . |
| 48 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
| 49 | But this theory begs a question : if the score was copied for a revival , or indeed after it , why was it done in haste , and — even more to the point — why were there blanks which had to be filled in by the composer ? |
| 50 | The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with . |
| 51 | This serial number will be filled in by the lexicographers and will represent the order in which the Project Director requires the forms to be actioned . |
| 52 | One company recommends laying its own make of cork lining paper or roll cork below the planks for better heat installation , and most manufacturers recommend a sheet of underlay below their wood floors ( to be tucked in behind the skirting boards ) if there is any possibility of dampness occurring . |
| 53 | I too desired to be at home , and was glad when we were able to close our own dear front door behind us , and be gathered in to the silence of our little parlour . |
| 54 | ‘ We pulled out all the stops to produce extra stock needed to meet the charter flights , so the paint could be flown in over the weekends . ’ |
| 55 | Instead we leave the pictures to be stripped in at the printers , and get a better image as a result . |
| 56 | Slate is marvellous to look at but at a marvellous price , and there is an enormous choice in ceramic tiles which can be mixed in among the terracottas for an ethnic Mexican or Provencale , Italian , Spanish or Portuguese look . |
| 57 | The hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) made an important point when he referred to the need for health and safety to be designed in from the beginning . |
| 58 | The next day , he telephoned Al Clark , asking that Music Week be let in on the joke . |
| 59 | One is hammering on the front door of Elland Road asking to be let in to the VIP suites . |
| 60 | The text of the document — a school librarian 's information skills worksheet or a pupil 's dissertation — can be keyed in via the microcomputer keyboard which is used in the same way as a 31typewriter . |