Example sentences of "up in the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 2 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 3 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 4 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 5 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 6 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 7 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 8 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 9 | Attacks on the Beira corridor pipeline to Zimbabwe were stepped up in the early weeks of 1990 . |
| 10 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 11 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 12 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 13 | The other lamb 's getting tangled up in the other parts of that Russian vine 's gone over . |
| 14 | Far up in the northern reaches of Canada roam vast herds of caribou , a deer which we in Europe call the reindeer . |
| 15 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 16 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 17 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 18 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 19 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 20 | Reversals have , so far as is known , been taking place throughout geological time , and the evidence of these reversals is stored up in the magnetic fabrics of the rocks of both the continents and the oceanic crust . |
| 21 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 22 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 23 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |