Example sentences of "take up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your opponent takes up a left fighting stance , that is with the left leg leading . |
| 2 | She apologises for her simplicity , giving a busy woman 's reason : ‘ T is true I write in shortened measure , Because I scrawl but at my leisure ; For why ? — sublimity of style Takes up a most prodigious while … |
| 3 | He takes up a job as a pilot shuttling planes between a Greek island and the mainland , but is eventually able to vindicate himself when his old ship reaches the Aegean . |
| 4 | And as a little extra , the whole family is remembered through the generosity of the school 's industrial ‘ twin ’ — Triton plc , Britain 's leading shower manufacturer — which offers £10 cash back for every Triton shower purchased at Payless DIY , Nuneaton when your child takes up a place at Manor Park . |
| 5 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 6 | It would not be practical because the paper information system takes up a vast amount of space , something which is sorely at a premium in many bureaux premises . |
| 7 | Instead of fleeing to a safe place and hiding away there with complete body concealment , the animal takes up a semi-hidden position from which it can remain watchful . |
| 8 | When drawing children , you will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 9 | When drawing children , your will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 10 | As it is , the three months ' requirement in Northern Ireland results in the disentitlement to vote of persons who would undoubtedly be able to vote in Great Britain , for example any person previously resident only in Great Britain who abandons his old residence and takes up a new one in Northern Ireland within three months of the qualifying date . |
| 11 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 12 | Without wanting to state the obvious , the SJ-20 is a big guitar that takes up a lot of room . |
| 13 | There is always the old technique of adjusting bridle length with an overhand hitch to shorten the line ; but for sport kites , the knot itself takes up a lot of line . |
| 14 | The airport already takes up a significant proportion of the island 's land area , and lengthening the runway will be difficult and expensive for the fragile economy . |
| 15 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 16 | Gary Peters , assistant to Beck at Cambridge , takes up a similar role . |
| 17 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |
| 18 | Body language is with us night and day but something else which takes up a fair amount of time in our lives is travel . |
| 19 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 20 | When drawing children , you will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 21 | When drawing children , your will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 22 | With Mick Talbot in the producer 's chair , this boasts a full-bodied sound that takes up a more relaxed , less esoteric stance than ‘ In Search Of The 13th Note ’ , concentrating its positive energies on the music as well as the lyrics . |
| 23 | Once egg laying is complete , the female retires to a safe distance and the male takes up a guard position under the nest . |
| 24 | Well-established clematis plants develop a large root system that takes up a great deal of water . |
| 25 | The new system will run under MS-DOS or Windows , transmits at a faster 10Mbps than its predecessor and takes up a fifth less memory space : 37Kb on a satellite , 46Kb on a server . |
| 26 | The 7960 takes up a third less space than its predecessor and features a new intelligent learning cache algorithm . |
| 27 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 28 | Left : Storing water at room temperature and aerating takes up a lot of space but may be worthwhile — the bucket on the right may have had salt added , but the SG tester also incorporates a thermometer . |
| 29 | It also takes up a lot of memory for OPEN , remembering all states which might lead to a solution . |
| 30 | That 's a vast erm that takes up a vast erm proportion of the market . |