Example sentences of "take up [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands . |
| 18 | — 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The distinction of the Son from the Father was a theme vehemently taken up by the Roman presbyter Hippolytus . |
| 21 | The idea of the wedding was taken up by the early Church as an illustration of the glory of the coming of God 's kingdom at the end of time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Within seconds , the sing-song chant had been taken up by the vast majority . |
| 25 | The most satisfactory extrinsic marker is [ 3H ] thymidine which , due to the rapid cell cycle of early post-implantation embryonic cells , is quickly taken up by the vast majority of cells and appears not to be deleterious to development ( 25 ) . |
| 26 | One possible explanation for this discrepancy might be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa , and there is indirect evidence to suggest that this so . |
| 27 | Another possible reason for this discrepancy may be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa than 5-ASA , resulting in subtherapeutic mucosal concentrations . |
| 28 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 29 | It was taken up by the Hellenistic astronomers , became the standard astronomical system of reference in the Middle Ages , and was even used by Copernicus in his lunar and planetary tables . |
| 30 | With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square . |