Example sentences of "[verb] up in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 2 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 3 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 4 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 5 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 6 | He hated the sun and used to curl up in shadowy places . |
| 7 | Now , however I realise that they all grow up in different stages and learn to do different things at different times . |
| 8 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 9 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 10 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 11 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 12 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 13 | The productivity theme was picked up in main sessions on Coatings ( Australia , Europe and North America ) , Fibres and Films and Chemicals . |
| 14 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 15 | But ask one of the sergeants to come up in ten minutes to pack up the mallet for the Yard lab , will you ? |
| 16 | This proved extremely successful and after several open days farmers began signing up in increasing numbers . |
| 17 | They build up in shallow waters , off the edge of tropical or sub-tropical continents , where the waters are stirred , and light penetrates . |
| 18 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 19 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 20 | There were no secret gatherings , partly because there were hardly any students , and because the peasants and artisans , although very anti-Fascist , had no desire to be caught up in political activities . |
| 21 | The seed corn left to accompany the dead could sprout again — as a boy , he had heard reports of successful experiments on damp rags in the dark — the coins for the ferryman , fallen among the collapsed lips and tongueless jawbones of the discovered dead , could be buffed and brightened until the curls in the hair of Demeter , caught up in rich ropes under a garland of corn floating with ribbons , gleamed glossily again , and the Cupid on Riba 's emblematic ship , facing out to sea with his drawn bow over the whorl of the prow , stood out in silver against the duller ground . |
| 22 | 3 A corporate tie-up between privileged interests and state may be threatened by the emergence onto the political agenda of new groups and new " citizen " concerns that fall outside of the incorporation that bears on groups caught up in economic issues and the division of labour . |
| 23 | In 1917 they were ‘ caught up in great events over which they had no control . ’ |
| 24 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
| 25 | Indeed , the whole book inevitably paints a gloomy picture over the future for ex-Yugoslavia , particularly for minority populations caught up in nationalist disputes . |
| 26 | On the downside , high performance can today only be achieved with a proprietary multi-chip implementation , early PowerPC implementations will not be performance leaders and IBM is caught up in internal conflicts over the AS/400 and its mainframes . |
| 27 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 28 | I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once . |
| 29 | Strathclyde has made a direct appeal to the Scottish education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , to change the legislation so that closure programmes are not caught up in lengthy delays . |
| 30 | Problems of order , control and freedom are , indeed , increasingly caught up in organizational processes ( Manning , 1980:10 ) . |