Example sentences of "take up [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 2 | Prototype materials were tried out in these schools with the help of field curriculum workers ( mobile teacher trainers whose story we shall take up in a later chapter ) and later refined and distributed in final form to a further eight hundred schools with a similar scale of supervision , in the hope that these would serve as a nucleus in each state for further dissemination to other schools . |
| 3 | When these are considered of more than local importance , they are taken up at a national level . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A large portion of the large room was taken up with a large number of very large men . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , he 's taken up with a divorced woman yon end of Gosforth , I understand . |
| 8 | Any dwellings not taken up within a specified time are placed on the open market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | More important , if your machine is good enough it could be taken up by a commercial firm and go into production . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |
| 15 | Some of our precious time spent at Low Birk Hatt is taken up by a steady stream of Hannah 's admirers , making a pilgrimage to a place they know so well from the television programmes and books . |
| 16 | The issue is to be taken up in a joint approach to the Welsh Office . |
| 17 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 18 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 19 | Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group . |
| 20 | This suggests an important theme which will be taken up in a later discussion of Paisley 's leadership style . |
| 21 | In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) . |
| 22 | ( Doane 1984 ) The issue of the female viewer 's possibilities for identification was taken up in a different way in the work of Janet Bergstrom and in Laura Mulvey 's own ‘ Afterthoughts on ‘ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' ’ . |
| 23 | Wait for a suitable moment and say : " That is a very interesting point you have raised , Mr R. , which we might wish to take up at a later meeting , but I really do n't think it helps our problem at the moment . " |