Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possibility would be to start his play behaviour just before lunchtime so that there is less time for undesirable behaviour to creep in . |
| 2 | SUCCESSORS to one-arm bandits , fruit machines have to pay out 70p for each £1 slotted in . |
| 3 | But this does not indicate that the particular swim where you are catching 3lb to 4lb barbel will only produce fish in that size range , for once that shoal moves out it is not unusual for another shoal to move in , be they bigger or smaller . |
| 4 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 5 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 6 | The tests in Malaysia came in response to complaints about foreign objects found in previously unopened packets : a fishing hook , a needle , cockroach eggs , rat droppings and various unidentified stains . |
| 7 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 8 | ( It will also have been a waste if the outcome is only to soften up British buyers for Japanese companies to rush in and sell us microcomputers as they have previously sold us domestic electronic equipment . ) |
| 9 | The very short duration of most of the " events " for which they are providing services , and the gaps which occur between these " events " , make it highly appropriate for such organizations to bring in labour on a casual basis . |
| 10 | However , just before the point of order was raised , a group of Labour Members came in and raised , on spurious points of order , allegations against the Secretary of State for Health arising from matters that did not appear in the report . |
| 11 | For these he used ‘ mainly major pentatonics with a bit of chromatic stuff thrown in ’ . |
| 12 | The City expects the Chancellor to alter but not altogether abandon the rule , effectively reducing the amount of gilt-edged stock bought in by the Bank of England . |
| 13 | But to be faced with the short-term threat of redundancy at the hands of private contractors brought in by the health authority would mean that they might feel subject to a considerable degree of provocation . |
| 14 | The courts first began to take obscenity seriously as a result of private prosecutions brought in the early nineteenth century by the Society for the Suppression of Vice , dubbed by Sydney Smith " a society for suppressing the vices of those whose incomes do not exceed £500 per annum " . |
| 15 | This will be a meeting to discuss the provision of low cost housing in and it will be more of a committee meeting with representatives from the Parish Council , the PCC , Wyre Borough and one of the housing associations . |
| 16 | Perhaps the work-load is high at the time , looking at the map and the ground for possible clues as to where they are , looking for signs of possible lift to climb in , together with all the other little worries involved in a field landing . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't remember anyone of that name coming in . ’ |
| 18 | The memory of that morning flooded in , making her cringe inside . |
| 19 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 20 | The inrush of fresh air came in through the room , circulated , inter mixed with the vapour laden air in the lounge . |
| 21 | An unprecedented entry of 43 teams brought in a charity bonanza with BNFL raising more than £10,000 — the best effort yet in eight years of competition . |
| 22 | Once triggered , however , a process of cumulative causation sets in . |
| 23 | Unfortunately not all discourse types , especially the less formal ones , have their own overt terminology , and we should avoid burdening students with the kind of specialized metalanguage employed in , for example , the analysis of a school lesson by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) described in 4.3 . |
| 24 | The introduction of a full programme of four-day cricket comes in next season , despite strong protests from Yorkshire and several other counties . |
| 25 | When you have tired of building sand castles and the donkeys are having a break , there are plenty of interesting places to visit in and around the town . |
| 26 | It must be appreciated that the spelling of Latin names varied in much the way that today Catharine , Catherine , Katharine , Katherine , Kathryn and Catrina are , for example , versions of a single form , hence in the list only the more obscure renderings are given . |
| 27 | ‘ And the competition of another striker coming in can be good . |
| 28 | This year 's model … new stuff with a couple of old faves thrown in . |
| 29 | Men in blue overalls with newspapers sticking out of back pockets wandered in . |
| 30 | I share John Main 's concerns , as reflected in MG Minutes of 7. ix.93 , over the volume and nature of public enquiries coming in to the Garden , because many of them are now being directed to the Library . |