Example sentences of "take up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 2 | Sentence ( 3 ) takes up the content of its predecessor by repeating the whole phrase " he would have liked to hear " ; ( 10 ) repeats the word weakness from ( 9 ) ; in ( 5 ) , " this cynical confession " refers , in different words , to the " casual observation " just mentioned in ( 4 ) . |
| 3 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 4 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 5 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 6 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 7 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 8 | The video takes up the story of two of the characters from A Weekend Away whom we now meet on holiday on the south coast of England . |
| 9 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 10 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 11 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 12 | Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 13 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 14 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 15 | It takes up the concept of ‘ covenant ’ already familiar in the ancient world . |
| 16 | The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein . |
| 17 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 18 | Dr. Peter Williamson , who takes up the post at the beginning of April , spends two days in the town and meets the Leukaemia Unit Fund committee on Wednesday evening . |
| 19 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 20 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 21 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 22 | The second characteristic of the corporatist vision of the company takes up the theme of the obliteration of the distinction between state and society and between public and private to supply a normative vision of the role of corporate management . |
| 23 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 24 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 25 | It is critical at this stage , though , that the head conveys positive messages and takes up the opportunities on offer . |
| 26 | Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit . |
| 27 | Paolozzi takes up the challenge with relish , as he deliberately creates hiatuses and breaks in The Wealth of Nations . |
| 28 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 29 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 30 | She would not take up the cudgels of such a battle . |