Example sentences of "[art] [noun] take up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
| 4 | The temperature at which this freedom of the chains to take up any configuration allowed by the bond angle cone occurs will depend upon the chemical composition of the polymer , which , in turn , determines the depth and shape of the energy wells governing the probability of any configuration through a Boltzmann factor . |
| 5 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 6 | These costs are relevant because they are directly attributable to the decision to take up an opportunity . |
| 7 | Once egg laying is complete , the female retires to a safe distance and the male takes up a guard position under the nest . |
| 8 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 9 | They have removed the right of women to have child-care costs taken into account when claiming income support , and they have prevented those women from having the freedom to take up part-time work to improve their incomes . |
| 10 | The story taken up in the press was of the interminable controversies in which the Cambridge English faculty has been embroiled : Leavis , Steiner , Kermode , now Derrida . |
| 11 | Although servicing the deficit takes up nearly 30% of government spending , fewer than 0.1% of Pakistanis pay direct taxes . |
| 12 | When the magistrate and his party from Burford reached the encampment , the militiamen took up positions virtually surrounding the celebrating gipsies . |
| 13 | As well as entering professional art practice , students from the course take up work in education , publishing , arts administration , community arts , entertainment , the media , and business , and placements can be arranged in these areas . |
| 14 | These trips may be run after the employee has agreed to undertake the assignment and so form an integral part of the briefing process given before the employee takes up his posting . |
| 15 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 16 | The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged . |
| 17 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 18 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 19 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 20 | According to the standard description , a long shot of a human figure is one in which the figure takes up half to two thirds of the height of the picture . |
| 21 | He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high . |
| 22 | These cells will later lay down the skeleton and move on the inner wall of the blastula to take up a characteristic ring-like pattern . |
| 23 | This is the issue taken up by Benveniste in Chapter 11 . |
| 24 | The Manageress there erm I was there and she , I , after I 'd been there eighteen months , she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray , one of the girls took up her , because she was n't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money . |
| 25 | Yes but you see at this time the girl took up her tea tray and , and when she took , she knocked on the door and when she opened the door the Manageress was lying on the floor |
| 26 | Under that scheme , owners who face being made homeless due to mortgage arrears are allowed to stay in their homes as tenants for 12 months as the council takes up a head lease . |
| 27 | The sand took up many different colours to the right , while high up on the left was a cliff-face — the wall of a plateau — where the rock had been whitewashed and hollowed out as someone 's home . |
| 28 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 29 | Her impression of a bleak , high-ceilinged room was confirmed when she entered : the hall took up the top two storeys of the three-storey building . |
| 30 | The next day the front page of the Sun took up the theme with enthusiasm : PORN LUST OF THE FOX ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |