Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] in by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
| 2 | I 'm watching Chris and Dave fool around at a disc presentation ceremony , a routine they 're well versed in by now , and talking kilt tartans to Matt Cameron from Soundgarden , who were due to play here with Guns N' Roses the following night but the gig 's been cancelled . |
| 3 | At the new master 's decree , today was to be a day of merrymaking : workers from his nearby shoe factory had been specially brought in by charabanc , and a syndicate of local industrialists had also gathered for the festivities . |
| 4 | These have been partly filled in by the composer himself , but though the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival is included , neither ‘ When I have often heard ’ nor ‘ O let me weep ’ [ the famous Plaint ] … is to be found in it . |
| 5 | Thus the propositional schema " x is a man " can be appropriately filled in by inserting a proper name , say " Jones " , in the place occupied by the variable , yielding a meaningful proposition whose truth-value happens to be true . |
| 6 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 7 | Although Warhol 's images so perfectly captured the essence of postmodern cultural overproduction , he was too much the cultural entrepreneur to be fully taken in by it . |
| 8 | She had been quite taken in by Sandra 's invention . |
| 9 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 10 | Attitude questionnaires were also filled in by both experimental and control groups . |
| 11 | The number of arrests went up to 46 when the partners of those arrested were also taken in by police . |
| 12 | Dust from such holes sprinkled down upon the drillers and considerable amounts were inevitably taken in by their vigorous inhalations as they laboured . |
| 13 | Threats were levelled that if cards were n't filled in by deadlines , good leads would be taken from dealers . |
| 14 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 15 | This power can be exercised only in cases where the application is not called in by the secretary of state himself . |
| 16 | Even if the loan is not called in by the investors , there are likely to be other implications . |
| 17 | It is still lived in by the direct descendant of Sir John Damer , who was perhaps so appalled by the building programme of his brother , Viscount Milton , first Earl of Dorchester , at Milton Abbas , that he vowed to build a small house for himself . |
| 18 | But the play , because it wants its bread buttered on both sides , keeps its options open until the end on the issue of whether she is genuinely taken in by her husband 's lie or whether her insistence that the girl stay the weekend , her broody concern for the future of the fictitious baby , and marriage-broking on behalf of Julie are just ways of stoking up Jacques 's embarrassment . |
| 19 | The finale includes a cunningly constructed canon during which Ferrando , still heartbroken , at first refuses to take part , until he is gradually drawn in by the others . |
| 20 | During the long dry periods between floods debris accumulates in the valleys as a result of weathering and also is probably swept in by wind action , so that the streamfloods have an enormous amount of readily available load . |
| 21 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 22 | Richard 's second victim , Clarence , is also taken in by the hypocrite 's feigned concern , but since the real plot against him has been done through intermediaries he may seem less blameworthy . |
| 23 | Five thousand square metres of the castle , which is regularly lived in by the royal family , was affected by a blaze which began near the family 's private chapel in the Chester tower on the north-east side of the vast complex . |
| 24 | Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road . |
| 25 | Because it would , it would slide back in and it 's actually held in by muscles and ligaments , right |
| 26 | Several of the big bream waters I fish respond best to maggots , but this is only because maggots are continually thrown in by everyone who fishes there . |
| 27 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 28 | Hall 's penalty was finally knocked in by Owen Pickard … |
| 29 | Hall 's penalty was finally knocked in by Owen Pickard … |
| 30 | The point , though , is not that his poetry exceeds the truth but that it fails to keep up with the truth , since it can not fully express the Friend 's merits : No one was ever taken in by Shakespeare 's disclaimers of ability , and few people will imagine that , whoever the Friend was — if indeed there was a real-life Friend — Shakespeare has failed to do justice to him ; if anything , rather the opposite . |