Example sentences of "take up by a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noreen bowed her head blushing in shame and was about to walk off when the song was taken up by a voice in the wings and out stepped Maria in her best dress to finish the song , ‘ To reflect back her blushes or give sigh for sigh ’ . |
| 2 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 3 | The current status of computers and microcomputers in R&D , and the probable course of development in their use , is a more useful area of study and has been taken up by a group at Manchester Business School , UK ( Morse , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | His demands were taken up by a group of academics and intellectuals who also accused Milosevic of seeking to provoke intercommunal strife and to destabilize the Yugoslav federation . |
| 5 | Half the space is taken up by a picture of a violin — ah yes , but one with a broken string . |
| 6 | In the early 1970s research into substitute care revealed lack of attention to planning and continuity , resulting in ‘ children who wait ’ ( Rowe and Lambert , 1973 ) ; these criticisms were taken up by a number of organizations . |