Example sentences of "take up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 2 | I then twist the plate forty five degrees and then keep doing that and Paul , can you see the ink taken up on the grooves there ? |
| 3 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 4 | The usual collection is to be taken up for the Communications work of the Church . |
| 5 | Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’ |
| 6 | Major Buckley had a colourful career as manager of Wolves in the 1930s , but it was not until Sir Matt Busby 's brilliant reign at Manchester United that the commanding role of manager after Chapman 's example was firmly taken up outside the bounds of Highbury . |
| 7 | The Centre 's resources are now fully taken up with the activities described above . |
| 8 | The revival of Evangelicalism in the later part of the eighteenth century was taken up by the groups whose passion for reform , restricting drunkenness and violent sports , were opposed to the whole basis of the Sussex labourers ’ principal recreations ; simple religious faith in fundamentals among ordinary people may not have been much affected , but organised religion was probably largely irrelevant to the pattern of daily life . |
| 9 | What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ? |
| 10 | The words " liberty " and " slavery " which had frequently been on the lips of the Bristol slavery abolitionists were taken up by the crowds , and the weakness of both mayor and military left the mob free to do much as it wished . |
| 11 | Later , it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets . |
| 12 | The proposal , which will probably be taken up by the NUS , is for a ‘ national crèche scheme ’ . |
| 13 | Far from focusing more tightly on issues , many of the Ham & High 's key stories have been taken up by the nationals . |
| 14 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 15 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 16 | A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences . |
| 17 | The £56 ( for fitting an Alfasud seat ) included a metal bar to reduce the space taken up by the safety-straps in the boot . |
| 18 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 19 | The negotiating position taken up by the unions will be an important factor , and Naville recognises that the behaviour of the unions will be influenced by many factors additional to the technology used in some trade union members ' firms . |
| 20 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 21 | Mendoros 's enthusiasm for aviation dates , he says , from his childhood in the Sudan , when he used to get taken up in the helicopters servicing Italian-operated drilling rigs . |
| 22 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 23 | Most of these options have been taken up in the days of the controversies over Christology . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 25 | My accountant is n't sitting here on my shoulder , and I 'd have to ask her , Bill , but it 's certainly we do n't assume a hundred per cent take up for the purposes of estimating like this . |