Example sentences of "[be] take up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our mourning can only be taken up into joy when we bring it back to Jesus Christ . |
| 2 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 3 | Much of the information system would unfortunately be taken up with information about the assortment of opening hours of individual bureaux . |
| 4 | He 'd been a social worker , then a deputy director of social services — he 'd been fired after the famous ‘ babyswap ’ scandal , but that was how he came to be taken up by FAMILY . |
| 5 | My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two . |
| 6 | If a complaint is received directly from a member of the public , or if further information about the complaint is needed , the matter will be taken up in correspondence . |
| 7 | This theme will be taken up in Chapter 6 when I introduce the structuralist account of the relation between signification and social process . |
| 8 | The question of quantity used is obviously intimately related to the way a given individual finances his or her habit , a perspective which will be taken up in Chapter 7 . |
| 9 | The difficulty features of tasks , identified from the results of the testing , can provide foci for teaching — a theme which will be taken up in Chapter 6 ( pp. 153–87 ) . |
| 10 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 11 | This suggests an important point which will be taken up in detail in the final chapter but which should be mentioned here . |
| 12 | " Taking a spouse for granted " — in which , perhaps , something of the same reason exists — was listed by 7 per cent in respect of women and 21 per cent in respect of men ; how many men , once their wife 's attentions are taken up by child-rearing , leave them to get on with it and follow their own devices ? |
| 13 | The tender procedure is similar to that for Treasury bills and as with Treasury bills , most LA bills are taken up by discount houses and clearing banks . |
| 14 | Like many experts in this line he finds his days are taken up by writing and talking about gardening , with precious little time left to get down to the gardening himself . |
| 15 | Thatcher ) led the charge on enlargement and that that particular banner has been taken up with enthusiasm by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 16 | The rest of the week has been taken up with dance rehearsals which , thanks to my futile flailings , are usually hysterical . |
| 17 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 18 | His time since then has been taken up with self-examination — ‘ finding my real identity , trying to reorganise my own language combining western techniques with the voices from my earliest experience . ’ |
| 19 | Churchill 's proposal made at The Hague for a European Assembly had been taken up with vigour by the newly formed European Movement . |
| 20 | Now it is , now this matter has been taken up on behalf of the company , by the constitutary European Member of Parliament John Tomlinson and colleagues . |
| 21 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 22 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 23 | The points raised in your meeting have been taken up by Councillor , Lothian Regional Council , who has also been in contact with me . |
| 24 | She has a nice ( and one would guess , younger ) boyfriend , The First Wives Club has been a bestseller , and she has bought a country house on the proceeds of the film rights , which have been taken up by Sherry Lansing , who produced Fatal Attraction . |
| 25 | His case has been taken up by Justice , the all- party law reform group . |
| 26 | The issues of health and safety have been taken up by trade unions in the P & o ferries dispute , and the transport strikes of 1989 . |
| 27 | The mayors ' plan , targeting $35 billion in fiscal assistance , public works , community development black grants , job training , and low-interest small-business loans , has been taken up in Congress where it has met the famous legislated ‘ wall ’ , which prevents shift of military funds to social programmes rather than to deficit reduction . |
| 28 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 29 | Soon it was term time again and evening were taken up with swimming , Brownies and piano . |
| 30 | There was a trestle table and a huge stool , the rest of the room being taken up with leather and wooden caskets of all sizes . |