Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The productivity theme was picked up in main sessions on Coatings ( Australia , Europe and North America ) , Fibres and Films and Chemicals . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1917 they were ‘ caught up in great events over which they had no control . ’ |
| 12 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
| 13 | Indeed , the whole book inevitably paints a gloomy picture over the future for ex-Yugoslavia , particularly for minority populations caught up in nationalist disputes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Problems of order , control and freedom are , indeed , increasingly caught up in organizational processes ( Manning , 1980:10 ) . |
| 19 | Caught up in these movements was the hippie culture of the period , with its involvement with hallucinogenic drugs . |
| 20 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 21 | Mashing , boiling and fermentation are often speeded up in large breweries using such devices as continuous fermentation and high gravity brewing , both of which produce standardised bland beers of mediocre quality . |
| 22 | This means that the cellular mechanisms of , say , remembering a telephone number and remembering how to drive a car would n't differ — it would just be that different cells , connected up in different ways with other parts of the brain , are involved . |
| 23 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 24 | The Alumni Foundation concerts are a new and pleasant tradition which has grown up in recent years . |
| 25 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 26 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |
| 27 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 28 | Quite different from the cacophony of patterns and painting styles which characterised his work of a decade ago , they employ greater expanses of pure colour and favour passages of thick impasto laboriously built up in acrylic paints . |
| 29 | The dome diminishes in thickness from nearly 20 feet at the springing to almost 5 feet at the crown and it is built up in horizontal layers of brickwork and concrete where the cement mixture is varied so that the specific gravity diminishes with increasing height . |
| 30 | The incidents occurred after tensions had built up in these areas during April between the Croatian authorities and Serbian militants , exacerbated by the presence of the Serbian-dominated JNA which had entered Kijevo on April 29 [ see p. 38163 ] . |