Example sentences of "are [verb] up in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 2 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
| 3 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
| 4 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 5 | Objections to the creation stories are made up in the name of science . |
| 6 | Departmental Budgets are drawn up in the wake of the Sales and Production Budgets . |
| 7 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 8 | Instead , they are bound up in the replication of previously set standards and routines which may actually frustrate the straightforward goal of simply getting housework done . |
| 9 | Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright . |
| 10 | At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ . |
| 11 | These purposes are those most readily associated with the objectives of the positive state which emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century and which are summed up in the idea of government as institution which promotes progressive evolutionary change . |
| 12 | Pancks 's habit of puffing and snorting , and his bustling ways around his employer are summed up in the steam-tug and barge image that CD repeatedly uses to describe them . |
| 13 | It is not possible to establish , even in the broadest terms , educational needs for the present , or the immediate future , without taking into account the fundamental economic and social changes which are summed up in the phrase , ‘ a post-industrial society ’ . |
| 14 | His feelings about the latter are summed up in the phrase ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 15 | These typical senses of the infinitive are summed up in the table below : The bare infinitive is therefore no less versatile than the to infinitive in being able to express a happening as real or only potential , which is not surprising given the fact that the to infinitive is composed of the preposition to + the bare infinitive . |
| 16 | They have lost touch with what is happening and hospital beds are being closed before alternative beds and day care are set up in the community . |
| 17 | ‘ Young people are brought up in the age of the video , so they can assimilate television that is cut quickly to a good musical beat , whereas older viewers would think , ‘ Oh God , it 's too fast and I ca n't stand all that dreadful loud music ’ , ’ Shapero says . |
| 18 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 19 | Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides . |