Example sentences of "swallowed up by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 2 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Life was getting harder for village shops : ‘ All the little firms we dealt with started to disappear , getting swallowed up by the big boys . |
| 6 | I scuttle off , to be swallowed up by the wavering shadows of mulberry trees . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wine acidity , he explains , is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was eventually swallowed up by the expanding city . |
| 11 | 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 . |