Example sentences of "have been caught [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break . |
| 2 | Here , perhaps , green consumerism can try to get us to eat tuna that has been caught in a wildlife-friendly way ! |
| 3 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |
| 4 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 5 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 6 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 7 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 8 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 9 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 10 | THOUSANDS of home owners have been caught in a painful new fixed-interest mortgage trap . |
| 11 | As I say , you have been caught in a little trap ! |