Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 2 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 3 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 4 | Since the seventeenth century we seem to have been caught up in this vicious cycle , alternatively applying the model of capitalist society to the animal kingdom , then reapplying this bourgeoisified animal kingdom to the interpretation of society . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sometimes you shout out the names of hon. Members who are caught up in British Rail delays . |
| 7 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 8 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 11 | Aircraft parks are arranged in themes , warbirds all park together , homebuilts are parked up in another area , antiques and classics have a section all to themselves and so on . |
| 12 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 13 | A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved . |
| 14 | Each turkey , fresh from the taxidermist , has been tarted up in one sort of drag or another from Parlour maid to Kabuki actor and , who knows ? maybe even Uncle Sam . |
| 15 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 16 | In Latin America , relationships are built up in this way not just for personal support but , also , to promote commercial and political ends . |
| 17 | The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block . |
| 18 | Possibly more champions are made up in one year in Australia than the total achieved in the UK since the breed 's first introduction . |
| 19 | You like to confuse people , and then you suddenly charge at them and trample them underfoot while they 're caught up in that confusion . |
| 20 | Now what 's happening up here , we 're going up in hundreds . |
| 21 | Right you started so you 're going up in hundreds , it 's two squares at a time , but only one hundred for each two squares . |
| 22 | We 're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business soon . |
| 23 | More offices had been opened up in many countries . |
| 24 | A new criminal law amendment bill had been drawn up in 1909 . |
| 25 | The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market . |
| 26 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 27 | easy when you 're working with figures that are going up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and the next one does n't . |
| 28 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 29 | This close relationship , some would say identity , emphasizes that central values such as autonomy and privacy are bound up in all sexual cases . |
| 30 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |