Example sentences of "in [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the most part , they are filter-feeders , lying with valves agape , sucking water in through one end of the mantle cavity and squirting it out through a tubular siphon at the other . |
| 2 | On April 26 Esko Aho , 36 , was sworn in as Prime Minister of a four-party centre-right coalition . |
| 3 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 4 | K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Oct. 9 to replace N. Janardhan Reddy , who resigned after the High Court ruled that permission to open a private medical college in Nellore , granted to Reddy 's wife , had been " vitiated by bias " . |
| 5 | It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions . |
| 6 | Walsh did not appear , but Cooper and Pilger went in as non-executive members of the Board . |
| 7 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 8 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 9 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 10 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 11 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 12 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 13 | I gather there are plenty of crackpots who go in for that sort of thing . |
| 14 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 15 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 17 | ‘ He is in for one hell of a battle and we will take him all the way to court if we have to . ’ |
| 18 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 19 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 20 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 21 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 22 | We could be in for another round of musical manager 's chairs |
| 23 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’ |
| 26 | I and my colleague thank you on behalf of the people in for this opportunity of presenting our case for acceptance of this petition . |
| 27 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 28 | They do n't go in for this sort of thing . |
| 29 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 30 | er There is obviously a certain party atmosphere at Conferences , it 's the one big chance of the year for many many hard-working activists to get together and share ideas , it does engender er a certain amount of frivolity er around the edges , so we 'll see some of that , but we do n't go in for this cult of leadership which the other parties do , you wo n't see any manufactured longstanding ovations for er leaders . |