Example sentences of "[noun sg] take up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 2 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 3 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 4 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 5 | ‘ That one scene took up a whole morning and I did think to myself I could have written half a script in that time . |
| 6 | Fang took up a senior research post at Cambridge University 's astronomy department . |
| 7 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 8 | Your opponent takes up a left fighting stance , that is with the left leg leading . |
| 9 | The teacher took up the remaining bangle and , throwing it into the water , said , ‘ It is there . ’ ’ |
| 10 | So , too , was his teaching , an activity which he found invigorating , and which on both a public and a private place took up a great deal of his life , from 1905 until 1918 at the Westminster Art School , and subsequently at a wide range of other institutions . |
| 11 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |
| 12 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 13 | The foot placement is very important as it encourages the rest of the body to take up a good position . |
| 14 | Although the intensive system of subject assessment takes up a good deal of time , it has been well received by these two centres . |
| 15 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 16 | They were invited to Hollywood parties together and they left together : when one broke into song , the other took up the harmonising line . |
| 17 | McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade . |
| 18 | The woman took up an uncompromising stance on the doorstep , arms folded , chin raised . |
| 19 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 20 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 21 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 22 | Her heart took up a sickening thud . |
| 23 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |
| 24 | The Government takes up the financial burden through the Public Service Obligation grant , but economies are still expected . |
| 25 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 26 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex-Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . |
| 30 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |