Example sentences of "be [verb] up in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 2 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 3 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 4 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 5 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 6 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 7 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
| 8 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 9 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 10 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 11 | The way in which these circuits are built up in a structured way out of interacting modules and submodules corresponds well to the use of nested parallel constructs in occam . |
| 12 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 13 | But remember that they 're tucked up in a nice warm greenhouse and it can be pretty chilly outside . |
| 14 | Mm , what gets me is how Creda they 're gon na , they 're , they 're coming up in the pink and |
| 15 | Hence public debt , irrespective of whether it is domestic or foreign owned , involves a cost-influencing choice : at the time the decision is made ‘ forgone opportunities are experienced ’ ( p. 182 ) , but this has ‘ no connection with the fact that resources are used up in the initial period ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 16 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 17 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 18 | Large British forces had been tied up in an expensive operation to which there seemed to be no obvious military solution other than counter-guerrilla operations in Sabah and Sarawak and the deployment of large forces to discourage further escalation of the conflict . |
| 19 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 20 | One way to remind ourselves is to reflect that , even today , not all the phenotypic effects of a gene are bound up in the individual body in which it sits . |
| 21 | Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions . |
| 22 | ‘ Jesus stresses that love of God and love of one 's neighbour are summed up in the Ten Commandments . |
| 23 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 24 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |
| 25 | A new Validated Courses Section has therefore been set up in the Advanced Courses Unit of the Assessment Department : its initial tasks will be : |
| 26 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ? |
| 28 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 29 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 30 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |