Example sentences of "take up [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rolls up small so takes up little space in a rucksack . |
| 2 | Brand B sells at £75 per month and takes up 7 metres of space . |
| 3 | This is particularly true of libraries and archives in which valuable information is stored in a manner that takes up vast amounts of space , is prone to decay , and may not be easily accessible . |
| 4 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 5 | the spaghetti takes up 10 metres of shelf space |
| 6 | Brand A sells at £150 per month and takes up 10 feet of shelf space . |
| 7 | Brand C sells at £39 per month and takes up 13 metres of space . |
| 8 | The fact that the collection takes up some 8M of disk space may also be regarded as something of a stumbling block … |
| 9 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 10 | He does not , however , explain why the causal influence of the forces of production is always , and necessarily , greater than that of individuals , and only takes up this point in a second argument , in which he shifts from the discussion of character traits to consider the role played by individuals of extraordinary talent . |
| 11 | It is also an independent feeding method which involves a separate rod and line to lower the dropper in , or , if used with the same rod and line with which you are fishing , takes up precious minutes of time when your hookbait could be in the water ; valuable minutes when the barbel are mad on feed . |
| 12 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 13 | Brand D sells at £315 per month and takes up 20 feet of space . |
| 14 | Capital gains tax will not become payable until the original shareholder sells his shares in B ; and if B is formed in a tax haven in which there are no restrictions on loans to directors , he can in fact enjoy the proceeds of the original shares in Company A free of tax until he dies or takes up permanent residence outside the jurisdiction . |
| 15 | The social chapter , which takes up three pages of the 134-page treaty , is merely a statement of intent to implement a social dimension within the EC . |
| 16 | Thus , the decision as to whether a file takes up more space in serial or inverted form depends on the ratio of the size of the key and the data items . |
| 17 | As you can see once again the advertising is a problem in year one which takes up forty percent of our actual cost of the total product . |
| 18 | Chapter 8 takes up another theme from chapter 6 : why managerial strategies concentrate on particular issues rather than others . |
| 19 | We have urged in previous submissions to the Government that the Secretary of State should take up available powers under the 1991 Planning and Compensation Act to enable minerals planning authorities extinguish environmentally unacceptable old permissions ( including IDOs ) without compensation . |
| 20 | We have urged in previous submissions to the Government that the Secretary of State should take up available powers under the 1991 Planning and Compensation Act to enable minerals planning authorities extinguish environmentally unacceptable old permissions ( including IDOs ) without compensation . |
| 21 | You ca n't take up that sort of attitude in a small place like this . |
| 22 | Do not suddenly take up violent exercise after years of inactivity , or you will injure yourself . |
| 23 | The new constitution , which was based on that of the NCCL , emphasised the association 's character as a body which would make representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and would also take up individual cases of discrimination and ill-treatment . |
| 24 | He wanted a campaign of direct action and mass protest , not an organisation which would take up individual cases of discrimination . |
| 25 | Sheep farmer Hare , 39 , who yesterday was out lambing at South Clifton , near Newark , will take up full-time duties in June and , initially , has a two-year contract worth around £25,000 per annum . |
| 26 | The other factor is that DOS applications do n't take up huge chunks of RAM and hard disk space . |
| 27 | I enclose copies of letters I have been obliged to write to the Managers of InterCity , Regional Railways , and ScotRail , and I would be grateful if you could take up these issues with British Rail on my behalf . |
| 28 | You should take up some form of exercise . ’ |
| 29 | We shall take up this issue in detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 30 | It was natural , therefore , that the assembly should take up this kind of understanding . |