Example sentences of "[adv] catch up in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture .
2 Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web .
3 I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country .
4 The audience settled quickly after the interval and was soon once more caught up in the mounting dramatic tension of The Hooded Owl .
5 While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion .
6 James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France .
7 Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage .
8 Sadly , teachers too are sometimes caught up in a competitive assessment system — perhaps even as beneficiaries .
9 It is not merely we parliamentarians who are the victims of that haste ; local government is again caught up in a hopeless struggle against the odds .
10 Her eyes filled with tears , but she made no attempt to blink them away , too caught up in an internal struggle which she knew could determine her life forever after .
11 A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time .
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