Example sentences of "in by the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 2 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 3 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 4 | It is still lived in by the direct descendant of Sir John Damer , who was perhaps so appalled by the building programme of his brother , Viscount Milton , first Earl of Dorchester , at Milton Abbas , that he vowed to build a small house for himself . |
| 5 | Far from being a coherent response to the growing problem of environmental degradation , ecology was a product of the new age of specialization ushered in by the rapid expansion of the scientific profession . |