Example sentences of "take up [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well-established clematis plants develop a large root system that takes up a great deal of water . |
| 3 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 4 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 5 | The poetic purpose of Genette 's Narrative Discourse is curiously complemented by his study of Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu which takes up a good portion of the book . |
| 6 | Although the intensive system of subject assessment takes up a good deal of time , it has been well received by these two centres . |
| 7 | That 's right , well that 's takes up a good deal of time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Body language is with us night and day but something else which takes up a fair amount of time in our lives is travel . |
| 10 | The calendar , with dates of school holidays clearly marked , takes up the central panel of the sheet , around the edge are further panels containing information about staff , governors , PTA , emergency contacts , useful phone numbers and how long children should be kept off school for mumps , measles and other common childhood illnesses . |
| 11 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 12 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 13 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 14 | Some , such as Advent , can take up a certain amount of moisture , but also dry quickly . |
| 15 | Many sacks use texturised nylon fabrics with a sort of natural feel which can take up a certain amount of moisture but dry off quickly . |
| 16 | Even a fifteen-minute programme will take up a considerable amount of lesson time if it is used at all flexibly , with pauses for discussion and repeat viewings of some sections . |
| 17 | For another , with a large brain the boundaries between areas will take up a smaller proportion of those areas than in small brains . |
| 18 | Secondly , two in-depth case studies ( probably of Birmingham and Manchester ) will take up the central question of why some women 's initiatives are effective while others , with initially similar aims are not . |
| 19 | Presumably Hurd and Baker do not mean by this that Hamas , the Gaza-based fundamentalist movement dedicated to destroying Israel ( unlike the PLO ) , should take up the official torch of Palestinian independence ! |
| 20 | Interestingly though , whereas physical abuse investigations took up a substantial amount of home visit time , the sexual abuse investigations were heavy on office interview time . |
| 21 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She banged the iron down on to its tin rest , took up a small bowl of water , sprinkled the sleeve . |
| 26 | Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city . |
| 27 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 28 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 29 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 30 | The portfolio of Mohamed Ghanouchi was altered from Planning and Finance to Economy and Finance ; Tahar Azaiez took up the new post of Minister of Professional Training and Employment ; Ahmed Khaled became Minister of Culture and Information ; and Ali Chabi was appointed as Secretary of State for Religious Affairs . |