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 | Strategies , in this sense , are preprogrammed rules for action , so it was appropriate for contestants to send in their entries in computer language . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now get down to the business of making a country fit for business to operate in , with plenty of unemployment and real inequality . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This new direction of thought was too sudden for Charles to take in . |
| 16 | I 'm just sick of reporters tramping in and out , wanting to know her business . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | The last 20 minutes was scrappy with nerves setting in for Leeds . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some nurseries have old boats and vehicles which have been made safe for children to play in . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No I have n't , no it 's , it 's er one thing I need to put in that one that due to wear to go in I can see those , that cream out there can you ? |
| 25 | Martin Houston from South Link in Andersontown who was jailed for seven years last October for a horrendous catalogue of crimes against young boys will be eligible for home leave in just six months time . |
| 26 | But he was also occupying space behind the defenders , making it difficult for attackers to get in on passes . ’ |
| 27 | Ms Kielly , 37 , said this would make it extremely difficult for people to get in and out . |
| 28 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 29 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The accountant can not be worrying about money coming in . |