Example sentences of "[be] swallow up by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injury itself occurred as a result of a cross-field back-row move , bereft of forward movement , that was quickly going nowhere to be swallowed up by the English midfield . |
| 2 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 3 | ‘ They will be subsumed , ’ said one official sonorously , implying that Tory ideology , at least in Strasbourg , was about to be swallowed up by the centrist Christian Democrats . |
| 4 | I scuttle off , to be swallowed up by the wavering shadows of mulberry trees . |
| 5 | But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole , then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole . |
| 6 | After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness . |
| 7 | Wine acidity , he explains , is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots . |
| 8 | At Grange Park , Hampshire , built c .1670 for the lawyer , Sir Robert Henley , Samwell 's house was swallowed up by the neo-classical remodelling by William Wilkins [ q.v. ] , but despite alterations and the threat of demolition , the shell of his house substantially survives , concealed within the later work . |