Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we move over to this scheme it will be perfectly possible for people to pop in and do a module in June , July or August , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Stewart Island , the southern extremity of New Zealand , is a place that most Kiwis have never visited , but one which it is quite possible for PPLs to fly in to . |
| 3 | He would even be willing for Viola to move in and share their bed . |
| 4 | The trouble with all the views which we have looked at is that they tie the notion of autonomy firmly and solely to that of knowledge interpreted in either a broad or narrow sense . |
| 5 | Too much for Thérèse to take in at one go . |
| 6 | Strategies , in this sense , are preprogrammed rules for action , so it was appropriate for contestants to send in their entries in computer language . |
| 7 | Skills such as note-taking come in at this stage , and one way of approaching this is to use the questions originally formulated as a structure for notes taken , so that children are noting down things they need to know , rather than every conceivably useful point . |
| 8 | Worse , rivals such as Unilever stepped in with generous deals of their own . |
| 9 | As You Like It is also very British — it mixes ages and accents and acting styles enough to suggest an island-full of people falling in and out of love , or at least bumping into each other . |
| 10 | Tass news agency said hundreds of wagons rolled in to the southern Soviet republic bordering Turkey , three days after the Soviet parliament authorised the army to take over the railways . |
| 11 | Households are similarly rationed in the goods market , i.e. , on account of ( a ) their failure to sell labour services and ( b ) the unwillingness of firms to produce any more than Y. By way of contrast , firms are in continuous neoclassical equilibrium and are not subject to quantity rationing in either the goods market or the labour market . |
| 12 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 13 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 14 | In an attempt to boost a moral and economic recovery , the government had announced that the renaissance of a country ‘ fit for heroes to live in ’ was to be put to the test in the spring of 1924 . |
| 15 | He was born heir to the betrayed promise of the Great War , after which another Welshman had assured the returning British soldier of a ‘ home fit for heroes to live in ’ . |
| 16 | It is perhaps worth remembering that the Beveridge Report was published as early as 1942 ; it embodied the aspirations of so many who had been disappointed by the failure of Lloyd George 's ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ to materialise . |
| 17 | Although the promise of a ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ secured a victory for Lloyd George and his coalition government in 1918 , it was soon to find its promises increasingly hard to fulfil as the post-war boom petered out and Britain moved into the years of the Slump . |
| 18 | Now get down to the business of making a country fit for business to operate in , with plenty of unemployment and real inequality . ’ |
| 19 | A hedge is ideal for ducks to nest in — although they usually build their nests on the ground , using leaves and grass , they like them to be well hidden . |
| 20 | This new direction of thought was too sudden for Charles to take in . |
| 21 | I 'm just sick of reporters tramping in and out , wanting to know her business . |
| 22 | It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ . |
| 23 | The last 20 minutes was scrappy with nerves setting in for Leeds . |
| 24 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 25 | It was n't at all like Julius to give in so easily . |
| 26 | Feeling more put out than embarrassed when the theatre management turned them away , the six complained that they had understood that ‘ you had to be in the nude in order to get in ’ . |
| 27 | The development is adjacent to the lands of the Kugapakori Indians , most of whom are uncontacted and therefore vulnerable to disease brought in by project workers . |
| 28 | Our breathing work is based on selected Yoga positions , chosen for their particular relevance to the Medau system , and although this relationship is important , the positions are taught differently , the aim being to influence the breath in an indirect way , undisturbed by directions to breathe in or out at certain moments . |
| 29 | Some nurseries have old boats and vehicles which have been made safe for children to play in . |
| 30 | When the doors were sold Dad went out and bought soap boxes , orange boxes , even smelly fish boxes to use , and Mum was happy with money coming in again . |