Example sentences of "be taken [adv] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them ! |
| 2 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 3 | Doctors who are aware of such appointments in their hospitals ( or plans for them ) should notify the JCC 's secretariat of the circumstances so that they may be taken up with the department without delay . |
| 4 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 5 | CONCERN about the freeze on its annual grant is to be taken up with the Scottish Arts Council by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which had expected an increase of at least 3 per cent . |
| 6 | The Dunning Report on assessment should be taken together with the Munn Report on curriculum ( see 1977 Munn ) . |
| 7 | The firm 's number of assignments has doubled since 1979 — from about 70 carried out by five consultants to around 150 handled by nine — and its annual fee income in London now exceeds £3m. profits are shared equally by the partners worldwide , and all new consultants are taken on with the view that they will ultimately become partners . |
| 8 | British officials said that no more than a quarter of the meeting had been taken up with the ‘ general issues ’ raised by the Chinese . |
| 9 | The matter had been taken up with the Bank of Ireland and he would be recommending to the incoming Executive Committee that it should be referred to the Labour Court , on the basis that it is gross discrimination . |
| 10 | Most days have been taken up with the unreported routine of minor incidents occurring twice or three times a day : suspect devices , random gun shots and the like . |
| 11 | Once a director able to work his obsessions into powerful narrative films like ‘ Point Blank ’ and ‘ Deliverance ’ , he has drifted towards autobiographical whimsy , with predictable consequences : much of his diary is taken up with the crisis of confidence after the failure of his ‘ Where the Heart Is ’ . |
| 12 | Accordingly , much of Volume I of the Critique is taken up with the attempt to prove the dialectic a priori as the universal method and the law of anthropology , superseding that which Kant had provided for analytical reason . |
| 13 | The planning of the buildings is very strange if it is merely a dwelling-house , since so much space is taken up with the two baths and the dining-room . |
| 14 | Flanders ( 1970 ) found that , on average , two-thirds of classroom time is taken up with the teacher talking , and two-thirds of this talk consists of lecturing or explaining . |
| 15 | The remaining space in the window is taken up with the currently selected command sequence . |
| 16 | Of course , if the principle enunciated in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 is followed , the error identified above can not possibly arise , because the question whether the company has consented to the taking of its property ceases to matter , so long as the property is taken dishonestly with the intention of permanently depriving the company of it . |
| 17 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 18 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 19 | A larger room was taken up with the endless daily washing that miners ' wives were obliged to do . |
| 20 | A vast bulk of political time was taken up with the importunacy of subjects : petitions for an office or a wardship or a lease of Crown land ; begging letters for pensions ; suits for a pardon ; requests for the Crown 's help in a law-case . |
| 21 | Much of the previous chapter was taken up with the question of what kind of economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 22 | The the erm a great deal of time at that enquiry was taken up with the alternative sites proposed by the Council erm and their suitability in relation to the . |
| 23 | The latter part of the Heath Government was taken up with the enforcement of its incomes policies and when the miners , having defeated the government in 1972 , challenged again in late 1973 , the government resisted while trying to find a formula for concession . |
| 24 | Now Easter was taken up with the sort of playing in the streets virtually . |
| 25 | The front page was taken up with the Leader 's activities : a photograph showed him pumping along a line of soldiers , his elbows thrust back , his chest puffed out , its outline blurred by hoary growth ; Doric-square , his famous chin jutted up and outwards , as he took a salute of volunteers for Africa at a little trot . |
| 26 | The remainder of the afternoon was taken up with the routine matters of the Branch , the only Bank on the Island , and in discussions with Peter and the three ladies on the staff . |
| 27 | The morning was taken up with the Townhead Cup , a stroke play competition resulting in a close fought battle between Eddie Docherty and Andrew Beattie . |
| 28 | Last year , the initiative for an open day for justice in the Cour d'Appel in Paris was taken up with the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |