Example sentences of "are tied [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fountain pen in Paris fulfils the same sort of emblematic function as a car and may cost almost as much : all kinds of social and identity messages are tied up in it . |
| 2 | On top of all this , you have the less obvious costs incurred by the denial of the use of your funds that are tied up in outstanding debts . |
| 3 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 4 | Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions . |
| 5 | Right , I mean the exceptions to , to the sort of , that general sort of rule of thumb are enterprises where variable costs account for a large proportion of total costs , things like egg production , pig production , they tend to be very short run supply elasticities tend to be very high in those type of enterprises , primarily because most of the costs , alright , are tied up in , in variable costs . |
| 6 | We will not be able to supply an adequate home care service without the release of the resources that are tied up in our elderly persons homes . |
| 7 | Newspapers are tied up in bundles , or put into plastic bags . |
| 8 | As these funds are tied up in Treasury Bills , commercial bills and other assets , the houses may be forced to turn to the lender of last resort — the Bank of England . |