Example sentences of "in from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the castings. like the head of a Queen Mother , show that the metal was poured in from separate crucibles . |
| 2 | Recent climatic changes have enhanced the cosmopolitan nature of this urban melting-pot with Bel Air and Beverley Hills , safe on their ground , losing their exclusivity as less privileged Angelenos have moved in from low-lying districts . |
| 3 | This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway . |
| 4 | Tufnell 's sixteenth over , there you 've just pushed it out and a number er Lewis coming in from backward point . |
| 5 | He 's got his five fielders there , four on the leg side at the moment , so saved , er long leg as well , bowls this one and that again he thrust forward that front pad and DaSilva , and Stewart comes in from mid wicket to field it . |
| 6 | You will then need to drill a hole in each of the four corners , about 13mm ( ½in ) in from each side , using a drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the four bolts you intend to use . |
| 7 | A centre fixing anchors the top , so that shrinkage now takes place equally in from each side . |
| 8 | Another possibility is to decorate the mount of a pressed flower picture with small groups of flowers , or to arrange a design on a plain backing with no mount , and then create the effect of photographic corners with single flowers and a couple of leaves , arranged about 2. 5cm ( 1in ) in from each corner of the frame . |
| 9 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |
| 10 | Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi . |
| 11 | The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion . |
| 12 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Drill four 5/16in holes in each to take the pencils , turn them 90° and drill a 1/2in hole 1 in from one end and along the joint ; this forms a half hole in each block , and hence the reason for making two holders . |
| 14 | ‘ That was coming in from one side into It , but it was too moral for me — and it still is . |
| 15 | It came in from one side , and Hrun was forced to take a badly-judged standing jump to escape the flame . |
| 16 | A wipe , by the way , is like on of those weird effects the directors of such programs as Top of the Pops are so keen on — where the picture changes via a tumbling square or comes in from one side to replace the picture you have onscreen already . |
| 17 | Zagreb television estimated in a commentary on July 31 that as many as 3,000,000 votes might be cast abroad , the counts being phoned in from Croatian embassies . |
| 18 | Old boys write in from various parts of the world and say what they 're up to . |
| 19 | Other team members include former expedition leader David Taylor-Smith , who becomes commercial director , and Fiona Haas has been brought in from Brodanski Sponsorship Management to head the sponsorship department . |
| 20 | On average a fifth of the sulphur in London and 45 per cent of that in Lincoln and York comes in from rural power stations . |
| 21 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 22 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 23 | There were some forty of them , moving in from all directions , in gangs of no more than three or four . |
| 24 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , according to the Annual Register , petitions against the suspension of cash payments came in from all corners . |
| 26 | Both these men became good friends of mine and I frequently visited their homes to deliver large sacks of fan-mail which came in from all parts of the country and the northern U.S.A. |
| 27 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
| 28 | We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village . |
| 29 | We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly . |
| 30 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |