Example sentences of "take up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 2 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
| 3 | And as a little extra , the whole family is remembered through the generosity of the school 's industrial ‘ twin ’ — Triton plc , Britain 's leading shower manufacturer — which offers £10 cash back for every Triton shower purchased at Payless DIY , Nuneaton when your child takes up a place at Manor Park . |
| 4 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 5 | Without wanting to state the obvious , the SJ-20 is a big guitar that takes up a lot of room . |
| 6 | There is always the old technique of adjusting bridle length with an overhand hitch to shorten the line ; but for sport kites , the knot itself takes up a lot of line . |
| 7 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |
| 8 | Left : Storing water at room temperature and aerating takes up a lot of space but may be worthwhile — the bucket on the right may have had salt added , but the SG tester also incorporates a thermometer . |
| 9 | It also takes up a lot of memory for OPEN , remembering all states which might lead to a solution . |
| 10 | It is n't a large place , but it takes up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 11 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 12 | This all takes up a lot of time ; we are under great pressure today . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect that takes up a lot of your time ? ’ |
| 14 | She says her husband has another business — which takes up a lot of time . |
| 15 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |
| 16 | He takes up a job as a pilot shuttling planes between a Greek island and the mainland , but is eventually able to vindicate himself when his old ship reaches the Aegean . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 20 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 21 | 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 ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 27 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 28 | Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 29 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 30 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |