Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One acoustic theory is immediately exploded : that a whisper on stage could be heard up in the back row ( Greek guides conveniently fail to take the wooden superstructure into account ) . |
| 2 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't want to be caught up in the rush when it comes . ’ |
| 4 | It is so easy to be caught up in the whirl . |
| 5 | Due to the extensive television coverage practically every hole on the course , and certainly all those on the second nine , can be conjured up in the mind 's eye , even when the tournament is long over . |
| 6 | Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory . |
| 7 | The fund will not pay a dividend ; all gains will be rolled up in the price . |
| 8 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 9 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |
| 10 | TWW , in fact , was a good example of a consortium put together from interests reflecting the shape of the franchise area , which was partly dictated by the fact that the signal for Wales would also be picked up in the West Country . |
| 11 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 12 | Lack of proper planning and provision is likely to be picked up in the review of day care services which local authorities are obliged to conduct every three years ( s19 ) . |
| 13 | As he was wearing only trousers and shoes he knew that he would soon be picked up in the town , so he got away through alleys and into the country . |
| 14 | But right now Eurotunnel shares can be picked up in the market at around £3.60 . |
| 15 | Excessive perspiration in poorly ventilated footwear invites infection which can also be picked up in the changing rooms of public swimming pools or sports centres . |
| 16 | However , it indicates how very complicated multiple conditions can be built up in the creation of user profiles for information retrieval systems . |
| 17 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 18 | Hocevar expressed gratitude for the British action in preventing Croats entering Austria , and stated that it was Yugoslav policy that " Croats should be bottled up in the pass leading to Austria and later disarmed " . |
| 19 | Produced by electrolysis too much energy would be used up in the process to make it economic while the other method suggested by supporters of the ‘ hydrogen economy ’ — thermal dissociation of water from the heat output of a nuclear reactor is neither a tried nor tested technology . |
| 20 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 21 | I did n't care to be squashed up in the shelter . |
| 22 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 23 | ‘ Our success , ’ says Denis Galway , Director and General Manager , ‘ can be summed up in the ability to offer customers , old and new , the right facilities and service at the right price . ’ |
| 24 | Denis Galway , Director and General Manager of Larne Harbour Limited , explains : ‘ Our success can be summed up in the ability to offer customers , old and new , the right facilities and service at the right price . |
| 25 | The British contribution to the philosophy of free speech might be summed up in the Duke of Wellington 's phrase , " publish and be damned " . |
| 26 | Guild members are not content with the position in the cooperative world which may be summed up in the saying of the man ‘ My wife and I are one , and I am that one ’ . |
| 27 | But the COS had refused to acknowledge the role of economic forces with respect to character , justifying J. A. Hobson 's jibe that their philosophy could be summed up in the phrase ‘ character is the condition of conditions ’ . |
| 28 | This idea of historical study as the rigorous combination of knowledge and method is central to any defence of a key position for history in the curriculum of the 1990s , and may best be summed up in the term " historical literacy " . |
| 29 | She began , Dear Sis , Tell Joel that it 's quite an education in itself for the girls to be brought up in the heart of the capital , and on the very shores of London 's historic river . |
| 30 | The child is to be brought up in the country , and should learn by experience ; this is far better than sitting indoors , studying books . |