Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BIIBA , as the trade association attempting to represent most middlemen , is equally unhappy that Fimbra is attempting to bring in a centralised insurance scheme , as most of BIIBA 's members have their own professional indemnity insurance cover . |
| 2 | There are plans to bring in a similar scheme in Oxford — it 's going to cost eighteen million pounds and take five years . |
| 3 | As you play fig 8 try to improvise your own fills in a similar style . |
| 4 | They bring in a similar amount of cash as small , or public , lotteries . |
| 5 | He said that the woman in the house had only a table and television , and had spent the night before polishing the table so that it would bring in a wee bit extra to clear her debt . |
| 6 | Lesley brought in a laden tray , set it down on a side-table , and distributed cups in silence . |
| 7 | Instantly the air of the quiet lounge seemed to stir , to gather vibrations as if his arrival ushered in a powerful force . |
| 8 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 9 | But because of the nature , because of the nature of our amendment , we do need to remind the opposition that er prior to that date was facing major social economic problems as vital services in the local economy fell victim to the consequences of planning thirty million out of the budget in order to bring in a low poll tax . |
| 10 | On the back of each barrack room door was a plan of how our lockers should look : trousers , shirts , socks , pants , vests and everything else had to be sucked in a certain order , and folded exactly thirty-five centimetres square . |
| 11 | Very often , when I take a walk along the river in the close season and see a shoal of chub sliding in and out of the streamer weed , or merely lying near to the surface , ready to suck in a floating insect , I imagine I have a rod with me and I want to catch one of those chub . |
| 12 | All you have to do is fill in a simple form available from any Birmingham Midshires branch , and we 'll do the rest . |
| 13 | Then the wind and the darkness and the sense of utter abandonment had unlocked a memory which had already put in a passing appearance earlier that night . |
| 14 | The core distribution business , providing a kind of mail order service in components , put in a firm performance , thanks to improved margins on the many small orders people make in a recession , and reduced losses at a new German start-up . |
| 15 | In order to restrict consumer credit by a given amount , the Government is forced to raise interest rates to a higher level than it would have to in a non-subsidized market . |
| 16 | It was at this stage that there was an interruption , a quite noisy one as the Master of Dunbar put in a shouting appearance , three-year-old George , Agnes 's son , his nurse in full cry behind him , a couple of deer-hounds also in attendance . |
| 17 | I agree , and I hope Gloucestershire will eventually bring in a legal budget . |
| 18 | He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well . |
| 19 | The inquest of that autumn of 1959 ushered in a political battle over Clause IV of Labour 's constitution ( the common ownership clause ) , which raged on through 1960 , and left Gaitskell like a Great War general , neither victorious nor defeated , but having spilled too much blood over too little ground . |
| 20 | Shots of unadulterated paradise — images of soft sand , azure skies and palm-fringed beaches can , when they are well done , bring in a great deal of money , yet , all too often , there is something empty about such shots . |
| 21 | It should bring in a great deal of money . ’ |
| 22 | He did say that by concentrating on types of labourers , and learning from the studies of life he admired so much in work by Gavarni , Daumier , Dore , De Groux , and Rops , he hoped one day to produce acceptable illustrations for the magazines and newspapers , and bring in a small income . |
| 23 | He had brought in a small bottle of liquid . |
| 24 | The next problem was to bring in a small phone box . |
| 25 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 26 | In any such case the plaintiff 's solicitor will be sent a reminder of the requirement to set down and will be invited to fill in a standard report form on the state of the case . |
| 27 | He put in a good word for him at meetings of the Jockey Club . |
| 28 | He put in a good word for me and it went on from there . |
| 29 | The landlord of the inn which Ernest visited when his mother and his wife became too much for him knew of a coffee-house in the town which needed a kitchenmaid , and because he put in a good word for her , Ruth was given the job without references . |
| 30 | ‘ The producers told me later that I got the job because of the winning chemistry between us — and that Pauline had put in a good word for me . |