Example sentences of "and take up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 2 | The new system will run under MS-DOS or Windows , transmits at a faster 10Mbps than its predecessor and takes up a fifth less memory space : 37Kb on a satellite , 46Kb on a server . |
| 3 | As it is , the three months ' requirement in Northern Ireland results in the disentitlement to vote of persons who would undoubtedly be able to vote in Great Britain , for example any person previously resident only in Great Britain who abandons his old residence and takes up a new one in Northern Ireland within three months of the qualifying date . |
| 4 | COMMANDER George Ness , head of Scotland Yard 's Flying Squad and tactical firearms unit , retires next week and takes up a new post with Securicor — whose cash delivery vans have been the target of the armed robbers his detectives risk their lives hunting down . |
| 5 | Nigel Carr is back in the Ulster fold and takes up a new responsibility as a selector |
| 6 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 7 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 8 | Floorboards tend to be fitted in long lengths and taking up a whole length is an unnecessary bore . |
| 9 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 10 | With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes . |
| 11 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 12 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 13 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 14 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 15 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 16 | Students should stand ready to explain and to defend their views ; and to listen to counter views and take up a further position if the balance of the contending positions points that way . |
| 17 | This could be exacerbated by considering the possibility , not as remote as it might seem , that either party to the above dispute between the convert to utilitarianism and the Samaritan might in fact be convinced by the other 's argument and take up a different moral stance . |
| 18 | By filopodial extension and contraction the cells migrate , and take up a ring-like pattern of the wall of the embryo . |
| 19 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |