Example sentences of "[is] [adv] take up " in BNC.
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| 1 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |
| 2 | This is generally taken up in a chorus of masculine approval : Yes , a fly on his shirt ! |
| 3 | At times I feel so tired that I throw down the pen in despair ; but it is soon taken up again , and , like a pygmy Antaeus , it seems to have imbibed fresh vigour from its prostration . |
| 4 | The UK , which already allows freedom to provide services into its territory , is not taking up the option to require authorisation . |
| 5 | But do not be downhearted if your story is not taken up , or indeed ousted at the last moment because a major story comes up : your campaign will not suffer in the long run . |
| 6 | Answer guide : An avoidable cost is a cost that can be avoided if an opportunity is not taken up . |
| 7 | And if in fact this large area of industrial development is not taken up , you can not be sure that the bits that are not taken up will be the least environmentally sensitive . |
| 8 | NGF is normally taken up at nerve terminals and transported along the nerve fibres to the cell body , where it presumably regulates the amount of peptide . |
| 9 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 10 | He said look you do n't need to take that to school , it 's just taking up space which I could stand in . |
| 11 | Marx 's and Engels 's work on pre-capitalist systems is largely taken up with showing the indissoluble link between the type of property and the type of relations of production . |
| 12 | At the provincial level there are Land Use Planning Officers , although their time is largely taken up by the supervision of settlement schemes and in planning state farms ( Stocking 1981b ) . |
| 13 | The remainder of the format is usually taken up with a number of short fields , representing encoded processor registers or control signals . |
| 14 | You may not be actually using the previous stitch pattern this time around , but it is still taking up memory , whether you use it or not . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | He is also taking up his case with the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 17 | Sea fishing is also taken up by many some prefer to fish from the beach and others prefer to fish from a boat . |
| 18 | Belgian-born Dr Michel Pacque , who first carried out tests of ivermectin with workers in a rubber plantation in Liberia over several years , is now taking up an appointment as consultant for Sight Savers ( Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind ) in West Africa with the task of organizing regular supplies . |
| 19 | Today , Finniston runs his own small firm ( small by comparison with British Steel at any rate ) , but at least fifty per cent of his time is now taken up with interests outside the corporate world . |
| 20 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 21 | The worker is now taken up with his boss 's needs . |
| 22 | The band 's onstage antics are almost as tacky and see-through as the music , and one ca n't help wondering if half their rehearsal time is n't taken up with mandatory pogoing practice . |
| 23 | Cos the mantelpiece is well taken up with the supporting of toy dogs . |
| 24 | The English text achieves a higher level of informality by appearing to consider various angles of the problem in a relaxed , casual way , as if the writer is simply taking up issues as they occur to him/her . |
| 25 | Although the scheme was devised for part-time teachers , it is increasingly taken up by full-time teachers who regard it as a basic or induction course . |
| 26 | He 's about to take up residence at Hertford College , Oxford . |
| 27 | The application does nothing to retain the existing trees on the site , it was a , it is , a mature garden with some mature trees , and all those trees are to be removed , it certainly does n't do anything to retain the rural character of the na of the village , and certainly does n't enhance the character of the adjoining small er rural cottages , i in fact it would be , it could be argued that it damages the rural environment , because the development is such that it is more suited for an urban development , almost a city centre , because the comment has been made that there is only about a metre between the dwellings and indeed there is only a metre between the dwellings and the adjoining boundaries , surely there is a need for screening , it is in a in a very very prominent position , it can be seen clearly as you enter the village from the Farnsfield area , the present proposal does n't provide sufficient room for screening , and and like the screen which is adjacent to this building , which are set well back from the road , and provide an opportunity for screening the single access to the site and the fact that the frontage to these two properties is completely taken up with garaging and with vehicle access does n't even provide an opportunity to screen . |
| 28 | In striving for this goal , however , DEC has sacrificed cache memory capacity — a third of the chip is actually taken up by clock buffers which dissipate half of Alpha 's notably high level — 30 Watts — of heat emission . |
| 29 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |
| 30 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |