Example sentences of "[is] [adv] taken 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Answer guide : An avoidable cost is a cost that can be avoided if an opportunity is not taken up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The remainder of the format is usually taken up with a number of short fields , representing encoded processor registers or control signals . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Sea fishing is also taken up by many some prefer to fish from the beach and others prefer to fish from a boat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 15 | The worker is now taken up with his boss 's needs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cos the mantelpiece is well taken up with the supporting of toy dogs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |