Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grapes for pressing would be brought in from many different vineyards , following Dom Pérignon 's explicit instructions . |
| 2 | The final election results had not been compiled by the end of December because many ballots had to be brought in from remote villages . |
| 3 | In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners . |
| 4 | A sluice system , enabling water to be taken in from external drains and retained , has finally resolved the constant threat of ‘ drying out ’ . |
| 5 | Yet it is still not certain exactly how much lead may be taken in from this source . |