Example sentences of "[conj] caught [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 2 | If caught out in the open , the echidna simply digs rapidly downwards until , again , nothing is visible but its spiky upper surface . |
| 3 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 4 | What seems to me to need attention is … [ the ] movement of psychoanalysis away from content ( pre-Oedipal or otherwise ) to a concept of sexuality as caught up in the register of demand and desire . |
| 5 | In this way , it becomes obvious that even deregulated financial markets do not operate in a regulatory void , for caught up in the reshaping process is the need to tighten loopholes through new regulatory activity . |