Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage . |
| 2 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 3 | While Piłsudski was to accuse the KPP of undoing his own hard work as military leader and of trying to dismember Poland by ‘ Trojan horse methods ’ , Moscow decided to rein in the free-thinking Polish socialists . |
| 4 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 5 | An austerity programme begun in September 1988 was beginning to bite , raising fears that Peking would try to rein in the independent-minded southern provinces . |
| 6 | Ace filled in gaps for her as they talked about his long climb up to Formula One and his present position , and because of her background she was able to fill in the bare facts that he offered . |
| 7 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 8 | ‘ I have nothing to say about Madonna , ’ she says , concentrating hard on the food on her plate and resisting the urge to fill in the strategic silence I leave in the hope of getting more . |
| 9 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 10 | There is a totally painless way of establishing whether summer is really over , and that is to fill in the following checklist of autumnal signs as they occur . |
| 11 | Four restaurants , a bar and disco ensure that evenings are memorable , with an impressive range of sporting facilities to fill in the long , warm days . |
| 12 | For adults over the age of 18 the electoral roll is the normal sample frame , but even this is far from perfect since it is compiled only once each year and many people fail to fill in the necessary forms while others may change address shortly after registering . |
| 13 | The satellite 's primary role is to fill in the existing picture of the heavens , revealing stars , galaxies , clouds and so on that are not seen at the shorter optical and ‘ near ’ infrared wavelengths ( less than 5 micrometres ) , or at the longer wavelengths observed by radio telescopes . |
| 14 | There are places in which the poet 's idiom , conceivably forced by the metre , is elegantly terse , an invitation to the reader to fill in the descriptive gaps . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but you might be able to fill in the odd gap . ’ |
| 16 | To fill in the unrecognised words , it was necessary to make many incorrect predictions along with the correct ones . |
| 17 | You should now use option 7.2.2 to fill in the new user 's details . |
| 18 | He gives us clues as to how to complete the jigsaw , but leaves us to fill in the missing pieces . |
| 19 | So who can be 1st to fill in the missing words ! ! |
| 20 | So who can be 1st to fill in the missing words ! ! |
| 21 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 22 | One way of dealing with these problems is to run off a standard pro-forma , to fill in the blank spaces and send them off to parents . |
| 23 | In isolation from these underlying realities , we are tempted to fill in the explanatory gap with imagination : |
| 24 | In recently enclosed country we have instead an open regular mesh of by-roads , and a few field-paths and bridle-roads to fill in the larger spaces between the villages . |
| 25 | We can either go on , or turn back to fill in the secondary material or accompaniment . |
| 26 | Assassination only works — I do n't really have to explain ? — when the victim 's people were sick of him anyway and ready to let in the new man without overmuch fuss . |
| 27 | When the shutters had been opened wider to let in the bright midday light she helped Luce to the bathroom . |
| 28 | Bill drew the curtains to let in the last of the twilight , then , as Faye 's eyes began to adjust , he turned to two low antique glass lamps . |
| 29 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 30 | He took the precaution , however , of carrying a typewriter and books among his luggage so that he could prepare for an address at the University of Leeds which he was to give in the following year . |