Example sentences of "is [verb] up in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd is caught up in a worldwide agreement which limits a foreign-based jockey to a 30-day stay . |
| 2 | Indeed , she believes that she is caught up in a bureaucratic cage , the different branches of the council being in league with local and national branches of other sections of the state apparatus . |
| 3 | There is now a widespread view that trade unionism is caught up in a fundamental transformation . |
| 4 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 5 | So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear . |
| 6 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 7 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 8 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 9 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 10 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 11 | The little booklet , which is turning up in the oddest of places , tells us for instance that ‘ Butter is a natural product — alternatives are different . ’ |
| 12 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 13 | Its body is hunched up in a strange way , with its wings drooped , its feathers ruffled and its head lowered . |
| 14 | This will tell you how much ‘ dead money ’ is tied up in the three products . |
| 15 | His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner . |
| 16 | His view of the Christ is summed up in the divine song called the ‘ Nunc Dimittis ’ ( Luke 2:29–32 ) . |
| 17 | The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . " |
| 18 | Mr Dostam supports the idea of an Islamic government for Afghanistan , but gives sanctuary to former communists ( although not to Mr Najibullah , who is holed up in the United Nations headquarters in Kabul ) . |
| 19 | A naturally placid horse will show signs of nervousness if it is brought up in a rough home , while a naturally nervous horse which has always experienced a sympathetic and secure home will be quite placid . |
| 20 | All the intelligent pain of the victims , all the dreams of the unlistened to , all the entreating eyes : all this is swept up in the fierce rhythm of the hospital . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 23 | ‘ If you have already experienced a bad marriage , you may feel that to marry again is to end up in the same sorry state . |
| 24 | Amounts of toxic gases in our cities have already reached unacceptable levels and this is showing up in the big increases in respiratory illnesses . |
| 25 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 26 | This issue is taken up in the next chapter where some of the rules of company law that support the functioning of the market are examined . |
| 27 | The story is taken up in the next extract : |
| 28 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |
| 29 | As these winds fail the mass of ocean water that is piled up in the far western Pacific ( where the sea level is several centimetres higher than in the east ) comes flooding back . |
| 30 | His Villa is fitted up in the same Style his Books are writ . |