Example sentences of "[is] [verb] up in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd is caught up in a worldwide agreement which limits a foreign-based jockey to a 30-day stay . |
| 2 | Indeed , she believes that she is caught up in a bureaucratic cage , the different branches of the council being in league with local and national branches of other sections of the state apparatus . |
| 3 | There is now a widespread view that trade unionism is caught up in a fundamental transformation . |
| 4 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 5 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 6 | Its body is hunched up in a strange way , with its wings drooped , its feathers ruffled and its head lowered . |
| 7 | His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner . |
| 8 | A naturally placid horse will show signs of nervousness if it is brought up in a rough home , while a naturally nervous horse which has always experienced a sympathetic and secure home will be quite placid . |
| 9 | It 's coming up in a great lump . |