Example sentences of "[adv] be fitted into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Soon it must have become obvious to the story-tellers that such a huge land could no longer be fitted into the Mediterranean , and so it was resited beyond the Gates of Hercules .
2 Sensible colours , sounds , tastes , and so on , must somehow be fitted into the mind side of the mind/matter divide .
3 To be more precise : the active working-class militant or potential leader must be by definition an ‘ agitator ’ , since he could not be fitted into the stereotype of obedience , dullness and stupidity .
4 The very shrillness with which bourgeois civilisation insisted that woman was essentially a spiritual being implied both that men were not , and that the obvious physical attraction between the sexes could not be fitted into the system of values .
5 In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme .
6 The 355mm ( 14in ) twin plate unit that came with the gearbox could n't be fitted into the space available , so Mr Tomlinson had to write a cheque for £800 to buy a special Case IH single plate unit .
7 Articles 34–38 specify no exceptions to the pacta tertiis rule ; such exceptions must either be fitted into the Articles or they must be accepted as prescribing only the general framework of the law .
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