Example sentences of "tie up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course Joan 's tied up in the Hundred Years War , and Frank 's got involved in some great animal epic . |
| 2 | They included cutting the amount of gold tied up in the refining circuit , reducing batches of work in progress in colours and a new costing system to enable product rationalisation in Jewellery . |
| 3 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 4 | This will tell you how much ‘ dead money ’ is tied up in the three products . |
| 5 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |