Example sentences of "take up by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bought companies for cash , raised by issuing shares that were largely taken up by financial institutions . |
| 2 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 3 | This was not taken up by mainstream researchers . |
| 4 | ‘ Folk ’ tunes , especially of Scottish origin , had long had a strong presence in the North-East regional culture ; and , as in other areas of the country , they had also been taken up by middle-class circles . |
| 5 | The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms . |
| 6 | Gliadin fragments present at the microvillar membrane may be taken up by apical endocytosis . |
| 7 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 8 | Only fifteen artists are actually included in the present volume , most of which is taken up by two sketchbooks by the eternally popular Maurice Prendergast , whose Paris sketchbook contains ninety pages of deftly-sketched scenes of bourgeois life , mainly park and street scenes with women and children . |
| 9 | The publicity he gave to the idea in his paper was taken up by other newspapers and the example of Gloucester was followed all over the country . |
| 10 | ‘ Ms McGinley has turned down two reasonable offers , which have subsequently been taken up by other tenants . |
| 11 | Cleveland County Council hopes an attempt it made to stop solvent abuse is taken up by other authorities . |
| 12 | And the claim to autonomous ducal sover-eighty over a duchy was soon to be taken up by other princes — the dukes of Brittany , Normandy and , ultimately , Burgundy . |
| 13 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 14 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 15 | She toured Britain and West Europe , she broadcast constantly — but she preferred recitals to the teamwork of symphonies , so never got taken up by one conductor , and in the long run that can be very important . |
| 16 | The instigation of action , indeed of action research , is a matter which must mainly be taken up by in-service provision . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In what represents a text book case of technology transfer , it has been taken up by major operators in the pharmaceutical and general chemical industries such as SmithKline Beecham , Foster Wheeler and Monsanto . |
| 19 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 20 | If the scrip alternative is taken up by all shareholders it would result in a saving of £3.8m of ACT . |
| 21 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |
| 22 | Most of the agricultural sector is taken up by part-time crofting but , unusual for Shetland , there are tracts of fertile land sufficiently extensive to allow for some full-time farming . |
| 23 | At a recital I attended , when an elderly twenty-one-year-old was performing , the first two rows were taken up by tiny children watching the performer 's every move like little sparrows watching their mothers bring in the worms . |
| 24 | This means that a good proportion of the interview is taken up by passing information to the candidate . |
| 25 | Devising programmed sequences in general proved very much trickier for the average teacher than was perhaps originally predicted , and the variations in curricula and in the subject-matter taught in different establishments revealed as over-optimistic ( certainly in the UK ) some early prophecies , which saw great blocks of time in the average school taken up by individual work with teaching programmes . |
| 26 | Both these methods of construction were taken up by continental masters , and Benet holds an important place as one of the early creators of the Mass cycle , the leading musical form of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 27 | In a previous book I suggested that it might be parasitic , freeloading on the efforts of the 1 per cent , a theory that has more recently been taken up by molecular biologists under the name of ‘ selfish DNA ’ . |
| 28 | Nowadays , much the greater part of the legislative programme of the two Houses is taken up by Public Bills . |
| 29 | Allon advocated the use of chanting but this was taken up by few chapels ; the much greater growth lay in the use of hymns . |
| 30 | This was taken up by local historians as an opportunity to highlight the indignity committed against the town and to use that as an excuse for Stamford 's embarrassing decline into a small provincial town the ‘ sleepy hollow ’ backwater of the nineteenth century . |