Example sentences of "catch up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
2 | Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . |
3 | The decoy can catch up to 1400 birds in a season . |
4 | The 20th century may have been slow to arrive in Langtoft , but it is all the better for that , and whilst the village has now caught up with modern times , it remains a haven of peace from the mad pace of town and city life . |
5 | Will Carling 's effort is a good record , although a little too caught up with imagined slights of the press last season . |
6 | System 10 may well help change that , but Sybase ca n't play the triggers now : everyone else , and even Oracle in System 10 , has caught up with such features now . |
7 | System 10 may well help change that , but Sybase ca n't play the triggers now : everyone else , even Oracle in Oracle7 , has caught up with such features now . |
8 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |
9 | Similarly , readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill-informed about polls before the campaign but caught up on highbrow readers later : the effect of reading a highbrow paper declined from 33 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to only 15 per cent in the closing stages of the campaign . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | In 1917 they were ‘ caught up in great events over which they had no control . ’ |
15 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
16 | Indeed , the whole book inevitably paints a gloomy picture over the future for ex-Yugoslavia , particularly for minority populations caught up in nationalist disputes . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Problems of order , control and freedom are , indeed , increasingly caught up in organizational processes ( Manning , 1980:10 ) . |
22 | Caught up in these movements was the hippie culture of the period , with its involvement with hallucinogenic drugs . |
23 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
24 | It was then the moment for old colleagues to catch up on old times . |
25 | I want to live — just a few more months , just to have time to catch up on old times . ’ |
26 | Today is an Edinburgh holiday and so I have a day off — a good opportunity to catch up with various things , and the plumber is arriving shortly to re-seal my bath . |
27 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
28 | Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith . |
29 | People rationalize by saying there will be a time to catch up with important relationships ( spouses , children , friends ) later . |
30 | But even if it is not exactly this scheme , it is certain that any global agreement will have to be supported by a mechanism which allows the developing countries to pollute more while they catch up with developed countries which are simultaneously reducing their emissions . |