Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] takes up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 2 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 3 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 4 | I ca n't imagine that a little thing like a little torpedo takes up the sound ! |
| 5 | The son of the present owner takes up the story . ’ |
| 6 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 7 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 8 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 9 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 10 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 11 | New chairman takes up the reins |