Example sentences of "be [adv] taken up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated . |
| 2 | What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ? |
| 3 | The challenge to increase membership has been imaginatively taken up by some groups . |
| 4 | Its short opera season has proved so popular that most of the tickets are now taken up by sponsors — including Glassdrumman on behalf of its guests . |
| 5 | Exposure of these sections to dyes that are selectively taken up by either the bodies of neurons or by their axons enables us to see the structure of the lesion site . |
| 6 | Their calls are immediately taken up by the whole team and the spectators on the ground so that the forest rings with wild and terrifying shrieks . |
| 7 | He bought companies for cash , raised by issuing shares that were largely taken up by financial institutions . |
| 8 | Early versions of these theories were quickly taken up by clinical researchers looking for a formal way of examining what their patients — like the one above — were telling them and many experimental studies were carried out , guided by the hypothesis that schizophrenic features like overinclusive thinking are due to very weak filtration of the contents of thought , resulting in the psychotic individual finding it difficult to pursue a logically connected train of ideas . |
| 9 | The interacting actors of ( i ) a newly effective market among the young , of ( ii ) some culturally effective initiatives by the young , of which many were quickly taken up by the market , of ( iii ) a more general unwillingness by the market , in conditions of high competition , to observe the limits and pressures of established cultural reproduction , and yet ( iv ) the alarm of state and other established institutions at the sources and consequences of such cultural production , have combined to produce a situation of quite remarkable asymmetry . |
| 10 | Pressure on land was fairly slack in the south ( most obviously shown by the fact that when holdings were reoccupied they were often taken up by men who already held land , and not by landless men ) , whereas in the east there was no shortage of tenants , and the demand for land was maintained . |
| 11 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Sea fishing is also taken up by many some prefer to fish from the beach and others prefer to fish from a boat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 18 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 19 | Generosity , however , was not an emotion that could be found in many Palestinian hearts in Lebanon , and the hatred that burned in 1948 was eagerly taken up by a new generation . |
| 20 | As such it was eagerly taken up by newly enfranchised members of Roman society . |
| 21 | It was soon taken up by other French writers , many of whom were attracted by its reminiscences of the Greek phalanx of classical times , and a prolonged controversy between the advocates of the new system and those of the traditional line formation developed . |
| 22 | So as to keep a fair balance , invitations were also given to all other parties contesting the by-election , only one of which was finally taken up by the Scottish National Party , about a week later . |
| 23 | This was not taken up by mainstream researchers . |
| 24 | The concept was quickly taken up by others , notably Emile Wenz , then by William Eddy and Gilbert Totton Woglom who took photographs of the American cities of Boston and New York in 1895/ 6 . |
| 25 | Amidst a blaze of publicity , the resolution was quickly taken up by student bodies all over the country . |
| 26 | Loveless 's cause was also taken up by defenders ranging from William Cobbett and Edward Bulwer Lytton ( later first Baron Lytton ) to Joseph Hume and Daniel O'Connell [ qq.v . ] . |
| 27 | The rest of the room was mainly taken up by filing cabinets and the desk behind which Himmler sat , working through a file . |
| 28 | One of the men voiced his somewhat belated fear and it was immediately taken up by others . |
| 29 | the Alkan baton was then taken up by Ronald Smith , whose epic endeavours on Alkan 's behalf have latterly overshadowed Lewenthal 's . |
| 30 | Just as important was the way in which , after the horrific Massacre of St Bartholomew in Paris in 1572 , the French Huguenots were driven to formulate a theory to justify their resistance to a Catholic ruler , a theory which was then taken up by the Dutch in their epoch-making resistance to Spanish rule in the Netherlands . |