Example sentences of "take up a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also takes up a lot of memory for OPEN , remembering all states which might lead to a solution . |
| 2 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 3 | Left : Storing water at room temperature and aerating takes up a lot of space but may be worthwhile — the bucket on the right may have had salt added , but the SG tester also incorporates a thermometer . |
| 4 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |
| 5 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 6 | This all takes up a lot of time ; we are under great pressure today . |
| 7 | She says her husband has another business — which takes up a lot of time . |
| 8 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |
| 9 | Without wanting to state the obvious , the SJ-20 is a big guitar that takes up a lot of room . |
| 10 | There is always the old technique of adjusting bridle length with an overhand hitch to shorten the line ; but for sport kites , the knot itself takes up a lot of line . |
| 11 | Recently I did take up a form of gardening , indoor gardening . |
| 12 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 13 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 14 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 15 | The strong Auckland group within the team took up a position of influence . |
| 16 | Nothing is known of him until , at the age of fourteen , he took up a sort of apprenticeship with a widow near Lowestoft . |
| 17 | He emigrated to Washington D.C. with his wife and two young sons , John and Philip , and took up a job as cornet player with the Barnum & Bailey Circus band . |
| 18 | Bremner is one of many Scottish players who made a remarkable transformation when he took up a career in management . |
| 19 | Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London . |
| 20 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
| 21 | It took up a lot of space , but the facts were few . |
| 22 | He found that the canonry and the cathedral , and the administration in the university , took up a lot of time . |
| 23 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 24 | In 1983 the Soviet media cited a New York Times report that in the absence of an agreement with the United States on the bases Greek officials were prepared simply to liquidate them and were ‘ seriously considering taking up a position of neutrality similar , for example , to that adhered to by Sweden ’ . |
| 25 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 26 | ‘ But in all seriousness , we understand from the clerks that Quatt is dissatisfied with his reception here — as well he might be ! — and has the intention of taking up a post as archdeacon somewhere in Worcestershire , where he was living before . |
| 27 | This question arose in the Strauss case in 1958 when an M.P. , taking up a matter on behalf of a constituent , made certain allegations against the Electricity Board . |
| 28 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 29 | Hugh McGill and Madeline Blakely have transferred to other posts within Hanover House and Anne Davidson has taken up a post of Head of Department of Service Industries at West Lothian College of Further Education . |
| 30 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |