Example sentences of "be taken up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONCERN about the freeze on its annual grant is to be taken up with the Scottish Arts Council by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which had expected an increase of at least 3 per cent . |
| 2 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 3 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 4 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 5 | As always with cohort measures , the data can not be taken up to the present day without a considerable element of projection ( broken line ) of the generation rate . |
| 6 | As in the past , a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund , and this will take the place of the regular second collection . |
| 7 | — Developing an analysis of society and the Church which will isolate the key tasks which should be taken up by the prophetic sector in the Church . |
| 8 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 9 | The colonic epithelial cell is probably the major site of acetylation of 5-ASA when the drug is delivered in an appropriate way to the colon , and as the N-acetyltransferase enzyme is cytosolic , 5-ASA must be taken up by the epithelial cell before acetylation can take place . |
| 10 | I hope you will take a look at the document and do whatever you can to ensure its recommendations are taken up in the final version of the regulations . |
| 11 | But there are several aspects of this prophetic Spirit that are especially important , and they are taken up in the New Testament . |
| 12 | Most days have been taken up with the unreported routine of minor incidents occurring twice or three times a day : suspect devices , random gun shots and the like . |
| 13 | His call has also been taken up over the past week by those with an interest in property , gleefully listing their own particular regional carbuncles ripe for demolition . |
| 14 | Within seconds , the sing-song chant had been taken up by the vast majority . |
| 15 | The Fraternity was disbanded , but many of its ideas and methods have been taken up by the new women 's organizations formed in the 1970s . |
| 16 | A Pensioners ’ National Appeal had been taken up by the Daily Dispatch in 1938 and Ritchie Calder 's articles in the Daily Herald , ‘ Life on 10/ a Week ’ , provided a further boost for the 1939 agitation with their Orwellian revelations . |
| 17 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |
| 18 | These proposals have been taken up by the public transport pressure group Transport 2000 in a campaign , launched in 1988 , called ‘ Feet First ’ . |
| 19 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 20 | The most detailed of these came from Wilshere , who said that most of the time had been taken up by the medical evidence — summarised with a wealth of detail ( which will not be repeated here ) . |
| 21 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 22 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 23 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 24 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 25 | Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield . |
| 26 | Now that we have the front bed working and set to knit , the yarn that is not taken into the slip needle hook no longer forms a float , but is taken up by the opposite needle and is knitted whilst the slip needle still retains its original knitted stitch . |
| 27 | A larger room was taken up with the endless daily washing that miners ' wives were obliged to do . |
| 28 | The the erm a great deal of time at that enquiry was taken up with the alternative sites proposed by the Council erm and their suitability in relation to the . |
| 29 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 30 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |