Example sentences of "take up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This success came through his rapid taking up of the new technique of spectrum analysis of Kirchhoff and Bunsen ; he noticed a green line in the spectrum of some impure selenium . |
| 2 | Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 5 | He also showed that the zeolite used as the exchanger could be regenerated with sodium to replace the calcium taken up during the softening cycle . |
| 6 | In the fullerene-road mechanism , the metal ion would have to be taken up on an open cluster early on during growth , and the fullerene shell would then have to grow around the metal . |
| 7 | When these are considered of more than local importance , they are taken up at a national level . |
| 8 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The remainder of the book is taken up with a detailed study of the acquisition and restoration of D–CDLH ( ‘ D–AQUI ’ , ) now operated by Lufthansa as a promotional exercise . |
| 14 | A large portion of the large room was taken up with a large number of very large men . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , he 's taken up with a divorced woman yon end of Gosforth , I understand . |
| 16 | I , I , I would wonder if Mr 's questions need to be erm , taken up with the chief public health inspector , because I think that that , or it , that appears to be , or possibly the trading chi=standards , trading standards officer , neither of whom are here . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Any dwellings not taken up within a specified time are placed on the open market . |
| 25 | Generosity , however , was not an emotion that could be found in many Palestinian hearts in Lebanon , and the hatred that burned in 1948 was eagerly taken up by a new generation . |
| 26 | This theme has also been taken up by a new Member who recently made a substantial contribution to the constitutional debate , Ian Duncan Smith , Member for Chingford . |
| 27 | The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker . |
| 28 | More important , if your machine is good enough it could be taken up by a commercial firm and go into production . |
| 29 | For its catalogue cover , Christie 's chose a painting by a Colombian , Fernando Botero , called ‘ The Dancers ’ , much of which is taken up by a corpulent woman 's behind . |
| 30 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |