Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 2 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'll be carried in inside a cardboard cake . ’ |
| 4 | Computing needs to be built in as an integral part of the Horticultural Training programme , so that future students will leave having acquired skills in handling word-processing , database , spreadsheet and design programs for correspondence , reports , record management , financial planning , and graphic techniques . |
| 5 | Here , we are concerned with the former , relaxed and floppy , with huge jackets as comfortable as cardigans and roomy trousers designed to be tugged in with a sturdy leather belt . |
| 6 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 7 | In a public library authority this can require all titles from all service points to be called in to a central point and their condition checked and compared . |
| 8 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 9 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 10 | Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period . |
| 11 | SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period . |
| 12 | If there are problems , le we could work them through together , but I think this is much more interesting to be , sort o I think to be linked in with an outside project like this , and just to be working away in isolation , and so we 'll feel our way experimentally . |
| 13 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 14 | DUP MP Peter Robinson said selective internment should only be brought in as a last resort . |
| 15 | The way that we 've found it in this this year 's Liberal Democrat Conference was to actually put forward the suggestion that Regional Government could be brought in in a flexible sense . |
| 16 | Second , he claims , it has access to supplementary business , management and technical skills — for example , consultants can be brought in from a centralised pool for any particularly specialised work . |
| 17 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 18 | The literature review will be set in to a general policy context of recent developments in the UK vocational training field . |
| 19 | Instead of lawn … ruler-straight path … shrubs ( all of which can be taken in at a single glance , and are as individual as frozen pizzas ) , why not make the eye work ? |
| 20 | Red Riding Hood could conceivably be taken in by an Irish Setter . |
| 21 | The infamous Clause 28 , forbidding teachers to ‘ promote ’ homosexuality , tends to be supported by those who believe there is such a thing as classical sex — one proper , heterosexual way of doing it , which should be drummed in like a correct French accent . |
| 22 | And would it look odd if you had a tent or wigwam type of frame that could be covered in with a protective polythene and well ven ventilated at the , at the base and as it 's only really to give protection , you know , January , late April sort of thing , round about that period , er to prevent the fungal peach leaf curl and fungal spores being splashed on the branches wherein . |