Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we need earholes to let in air-borne sounds , water-borne vibrations pass easily through the tissues of these sea mammals ' heads to reach their ears . |
| 2 | Where there is compatibility of pitch , the organ can be used very effectively with melodic solo instruments , or as part of an ensemble , or as a continuo instrument to fill in harmonic gaps and add weight of tone and sustaining power . |
| 3 | He found that a reader 's familiarity with the language enabled his subjects to fill in missing letters . |
| 4 | In a bid to bring in larger audiences its name was changed to the Palace of Varieties and it went over to non-stop vaudeville and variety for three years . |
| 5 | Could this be the break that Virginia Bottomley is looking for in her battle to rein in public spending on health ? |
| 6 | In each case Hilts exercises his considerable journalistic skill to fill in different parts of the picture of a personality in a flowing , attractive , if rather thin , prose style . |
| 7 | It incorporates an automatic line-follower , a paint tool to fill in any gaps or theoretical lines , an eraser and automatic grid-removal . |
| 8 | The Bosnian government on March 27 asked the UN to send in military observers to monitor a ceasefire in Bosanski Brod , which failed to hold , however . |
| 9 | I am giving the industry two full years to bring in lined glasses . |
| 10 | The Director 's flat has already been let as office accommodation , there are plans to rent out car-parking space at the Pickwick site and also to let unused rooms both at Pickwick and Nelson Square to bring in extra revenue . |
| 11 | Parliament recently overturned a move to bring in random breath testing to catch drivers who are over the legal limit . |
| 12 | Heating water etc. to cope with large quantities of laundry made for a periodic need to bring in extra labour over that maintained in the household . |
| 13 | Given this difficulty , use your experience to fill in these gaps as best you can . |
| 14 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 15 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 16 | Ceauşescu knew Lenin 's dictum , ‘ trust is good but control is better ’ , and ordered the Securitate to send in new informers and to recruit more from among the existing workforce as well . |
| 17 | The Conservatives may have refused to sign the Social Chapter in order to attract investors to the UK 's cheap labour costs , but Rhone-Alpes has proved that you do not have to be a sweatshop to bring in foreign capital . |
| 18 | Richmond and the club 's five directors have agreed to increase McHale 's wages budget by 25pc to give the manager a chance to bring in better quality players . |
| 19 | Some 70 per cent of the station 's power is to be sold to Hong Kong to bring in foreign exchange and service the Chinese debt . |
| 20 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 21 | The latter were to be encouraged by Party propaganda at the uezd level to send in supportive letters to the press . |
| 22 | Though the office is bursting with images there is still one final opportunity to send in related work from this issue , so why not hurry and post yours today ! |
| 23 | Good handling allowed Larran to send in Fabien Bertrank on the overlap and then , from a scrum , Sylvan Dispagne picked up and fed Galthie breaking on the blind for Bertrank 's second try . |
| 24 | Smith allocated orders to bring in new manufacturers where the existing ones proved excessively unreliable in breaking delivery promises or refusing to build new capacity . |
| 25 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 26 | Having noted the failure of the government to rein in public spending , the Fund set May 1990 for a further appraisal meeting to assess whether the estimated 1,000 million francs CFA could be released . |
| 27 | Even so , if there are two of you working together an ordinary garden spade or even a shovel can be used by one man to fill in some holes while the other man uses the graft or long spade on a new excavation . |
| 28 | And it was a mistake to bring in that counter-jumper , Trueman . |
| 29 | When the safety of walkers is threatened by the use of pesticides on crops , The Ramblers ' Association challenges the government to bring in better safety regulations . |
| 30 | DOUBTS remained last night over whether the Government had honoured its promise not to impose cash limits on drugs expenditure in the bill to bring in National Health Service changes published yesterday . |