Example sentences of "takes up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man of wealth and pride Takes up the space that many poor supplied ; |
| 2 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 3 | Sentence ( 3 ) takes up the content of its predecessor by repeating the whole phrase " he would have liked to hear " ; ( 10 ) repeats the word weakness from ( 9 ) ; in ( 5 ) , " this cynical confession " refers , in different words , to the " casual observation " just mentioned in ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 5 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 6 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 7 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 8 | Dave takes up the story . |
| 9 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 10 | Lord Home takes up the story : |
| 11 | Randy takes up the story … |
| 12 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 13 | Northampton chief executive , Steve Coverdale , takes up the story : ‘ Paul , like all the Staffordshire bowlers , had some pretty horrendous figures . |
| 14 | Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business . |
| 15 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 16 | John Burns takes up the story : ‘ The green is long and narrow and the approach shot has to be perfect . |
| 17 | He takes up the story : |
| 18 | The video takes up the story of two of the characters from A Weekend Away whom we now meet on holiday on the south coast of England . |
| 19 | Dan Knight takes up the story ‘ We were somewhere over Germany on the way to Berlin , flak was very heavy . |
| 20 | Dan again takes up the story . |
| 21 | Sydney Newman takes up the story : |
| 22 | Thorning takes up the story . |
| 23 | Dianne Gregory , UK credit manager , takes up the story : ‘ When we met with Graydon we were facing a challenge common to most credit managers — how to analyse the risk on our sales ledgers and enable our credit controllers to focus their efforts most effectively . |
| 24 | Colin takes up the story : ‘ I was busy making the display cases at home , whilst John made inquiries regarding tables we could use . |
| 25 | Tim takes up the story thus far . |
| 26 | Phil now takes up the story . |
| 27 | Peter Dew takes up the story : ‘ Throughout the weekend we worked in our teams to complete a whole range of physical and mental challenges from negotiating the longest assault course in Britain , going on night manoeuvres to rifle shooting . |
| 28 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 29 | OUR SOCIETY was formed in 1952 and Andy ( Eileen Anderson ) takes up the story : ‘ The very beginning was in the train returning from the 1950 Summer course held at the Medau Schule in Flensburg . |
| 30 | Ashley 's mother Jeanette takes up the story : |