Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 Fig 62 Foot placement variables in the carve gybe : Aim : to make the back quarter of the inside rail dig in and grip .
2 To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number .
3 Adding a line that works out the total amount paid in and the interest received at least puts it in perspective .
4 Here comes a brief history of the Korean war starting in about , yes , about ninety seconds on the Korean war erm North Korea invades South Korea and won .
5 Although this sounds dangerous they are perfectly safe and are by far , in my opinion , the nicest house to live in .
6 So er you know they 're making their bed er nice and feathery and yet they denying it us and then that 's where the erm the sore point comes in .
7 As the walls of the political world closed in on him , the old imperative of réserve — his instinctive aversion for being hemmed in — reasserted itself .
8 Occasionally the odd bed-spring goes in where it suits .
9 Every now and then , one of the tall waves thundering in from the open ocean carries within it a dark sinister presence .
10 Yet the dollar did not move strongly up again when the gloomier reality sank in .
11 As surely as if he could see them actually arriving , see them now , he pictured the stolen lorries driven in .
12 Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters .
13 As the light of that winter day faded and the swirling fog closed in , the two friends took shelter in a platelayer 's cabin at the northern end of the line 's long curve .
14 In the following year the contest was three-cornered , with engineering cadets from the Technical College joining in , but School was again victorious .
15 She was at least head first in this world when the auxiliary nurse rushed in and caught the rest of her .
16 The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life .
17 Certainly his resignation ensures that he will be in the clear when the economic roof falls in — an event which many people now regard as virtually inevitable .
18 However , as the reality of the economic situation presses in on the government so it is inevitable that more sensible and pragmatic policies are adopted 2 or 3 years into office .
19 The two awards were seemingly an acknowledgement of the specific problems met in adequately resolving the problem of the two sites .
20 As the strange shape darts in , the whole audience jumps and gasps .
21 Elaine 's feelings are echoed by many women , and this is where the mobile phone comes in .
22 Vice versa , the proportion of the professional group living in grossly under-occupied housing is twice as great .
23 The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn .
24 The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn .
25 Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones .
26 ‘ And he 's the right man to go in and get the truth . ’
27 We were perhaps selected by someone with a sense of humour who thought that we might be the right couple to bring in a Queen 's Speech which increases the penalties for mutiny in prisons .
28 It 's just a question of finding the right people to bring in and form a fashion-design group .
29 But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago .
30 The lexicon and the clustering allusions in the second half of the poem confer upon it a gravity , a sadness not wholly predictable from the opening , which seems to herald a piece on the theme of gathering rosebuds , drinking wine , and making the best of the good times before the infernal walls close in .
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