Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole .
2 The ARFU 's decision has still yet to sink in with many rugby traditionalists but Channel Ten displayed instant commitment to their new deal when they televised the tickertape parade live throughout Australia .
3 I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish .
4 Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation .
5 New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys .
6 The GLCABS basic training structure described in detail earlier , allows the trainee to sit in with experienced advice workers to observe their techniques .
7 refused to fall in with this idea , saying in Dobson v. General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Plc .
8 It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project .
9 Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now .
10 ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’
11 For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation .
12 Mr do you want to come in at this stage ?
13 They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time .
14 All three elements have to come in to any budget decision and nobody can ignore all three , indeed if you look around three groups of the council you 'll see that all the budget proposed tonight will take into account all three areas .
15 To some extent , the government 's policy of affordable housing will enable an element of affordable housing to be provided , but it wo n't satisfy the needs of either people who are currently on the bottom of the housing rung and seeking to move up , nor will h help people who might be seeking to afford to c to come in as first time buyers as opposed to people who are otherwise er some other arrangement through an affordable housing provider .
16 Then offers started to come in from other amp and electronics companies , asking me if I wanted to branch off and do some design work for them , which I could see the advantages of — plus I wanted to have a life !
17 The Mayoress , Marie Smailes , was away , so the Mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , asked their god-daughter Emma Lee , of Patterdale Avenue , Newham Grange Estate , to stand in as first lady .
18 A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point .
19 But when you go in on a subject like philosophy , to jump in at that level how adjusted you are it 's difficult if you 've not got any academic background to suddenly come in and have to start doing it .
20 erm which quite simply I had some money of my own and I was n't that hungry er to jump in to any job at all .
21 Going to listen in to actual conversation .
22 Tributes have continued to pour in for British Team Manager Les Jones , who died after the European Indoor Championships in Genoa .
23 ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her .
24 Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest .
25 Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively .
26 for love to walk in before closing time .
27 He was angered , and for a moment was tempted to reply that Louise herself had managed to fit in to French society , despite her origins and her antecedents , but he curbed himself .
28 The previous result has been restated to fit in with new accounting standards .
29 Western practices and ideas were modified to fit in with Japanese reality — though there were periods when ‘ Westernization ’ was very much the vogue .
30 He concludes that the effectiveness of a given system should be based on its ability to fit in with the external systems making up its environment on the one hand , and , on the other hand , on its competence in allowing its own sub-systems to fit in with each other .
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