Example sentences of "[was/were] take up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both these methods of construction were taken up by continental masters , and Benet holds an important place as one of the early creators of the Mass cycle , the leading musical form of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 2 | At a recital I attended , when an elderly twenty-one-year-old was performing , the first two rows were taken up by tiny children watching the performer 's every move like little sparrows watching their mothers bring in the worms . |
| 3 | Plots of land were taken up by commercial companies near the imposing station , the Russian Agent moved there , and Bukharan merchants and others from the old city flocked there . |
| 4 | Much of each judgment was taken up with painstaking reviews of the historical and social context of the advertisement 's publication , with the syntactical features of the sentence and its relationship to the rest of the advertisement , and with the undeniable fact that indeed there was considerable ‘ evidence ’ about the matters at hand at the time of the advertisement 's publication . |
| 5 | A good deal of wall space was taken up with framed photographs , each one labelled with a date and the location . |
| 6 | As a result much judicial time was taken up with administrative matters and with interlocutory matters which did not justify the use of the time and expertise of the judges . |
| 7 | The remainder was taken up with minor details . |
| 8 | In this condition , and with much-increased fuel tankage , it could usually reach at least 30,000 feet , and on one occasion was taken up to 36,000 feet by George Burges — although he reported that at this height it was very unstable . |
| 9 | Exporting to this level clearly offered a significant expansion of the market for manufacturers , an offer which was taken up to different degrees by different industries . |
| 10 | However , just as the Nordic states abandoned the idea of close economic integration , the theme was taken up in new developments elsewhere which , if they had a role model in mind , were to be based upon the more intensive ambitions of Benelux rather than the loose informal formats ultimately favoured by Britain and Scandinavia . |
| 11 | and this was taken up in like folds but the plait stood away from the head , it sort of come out |
| 12 | While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers . |
| 13 | ‘ Light ! ’ the cry was taken up from all sides . |
| 14 | The publicity he gave to the idea in his paper was taken up by other newspapers and the example of Gloucester was followed all over the country . |
| 15 | This was taken up by local historians as an opportunity to highlight the indignity committed against the town and to use that as an excuse for Stamford 's embarrassing decline into a small provincial town the ‘ sleepy hollow ’ backwater of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Allon advocated the use of chanting but this was taken up by few chapels ; the much greater growth lay in the use of hymns . |