Example sentences of "[noun sg] be fill the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 2 | Rieber 's view that the purpose of the emancipation was to fill the state 's coffers with the peasants ' redemption payments does not square with the background to the reform 's financial arrangements . |
| 3 | The plan is to fill the lungs and run faster , run further . |
| 4 | The contractors did not block them up , and when the reservoir was filled the water from it burst through the old shafts and flooded A's mines . |
| 5 | TENSION has returned to the Korean peninsula and warnings of war are filling the air . |
| 6 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |
| 7 | The manager 's priority is to fill the gap and he therefore may accept the offer of someone even though there may be cost implications , |
| 8 | The RYA brief for the new dinghy is to fill the gap between these two and the larger and more physically demanding 420 class . |
| 9 | The door had opened , and a huge hippopotamus of a woman was filling the doorway . |
| 10 | Lippmann 's view , like J. S. Mill 's , was that the electors have the right to choose their rulers or government , but beyond that they should leave government to govern without interference or pressure : " Their duty is to fill the office and not to direct the office-holder. " ( p. 46 ) A not dissimilar view was put forward by Bernard Crick , who said of referenda , the power to recall representatives and other devices for popular intervention : " They forget that the first business of government is to govern … |
| 11 | However , the simplest method to overcome this potential problem is to fill the pool once with clear water and allow it to stand for about a week . |
| 12 | The prize problem was to fill the gap between Jacobi 's results by finding the number of expressions as a sum of at most five squares . |
| 13 | At the time they were quite thin , and their main function was to fill the gaps between boot and sock , so stabilising the foot position . |
| 14 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |