Example sentences of "are [verb] up in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 4 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The letters are pinned up in a big main post office and generous people send the presents . |
| 7 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 8 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 9 | In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , people become so involved in the task that they rarely notice that you are setting up in a different way . |