Example sentences of "is take up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 2 | Once a director able to work his obsessions into powerful narrative films like ‘ Point Blank ’ and ‘ Deliverance ’ , he has drifted towards autobiographical whimsy , with predictable consequences : much of his diary is taken up with the crisis of confidence after the failure of his ‘ Where the Heart Is ’ . |
| 3 | Accordingly , much of Volume I of the Critique is taken up with the attempt to prove the dialectic a priori as the universal method and the law of anthropology , superseding that which Kant had provided for analytical reason . |
| 4 | The planning of the buildings is very strange if it is merely a dwelling-house , since so much space is taken up with the two baths and the dining-room . |
| 5 | Flanders ( 1970 ) found that , on average , two-thirds of classroom time is taken up with the teacher talking , and two-thirds of this talk consists of lecturing or explaining . |
| 6 | The remaining space in the window is taken up with the currently selected command sequence . |
| 7 | If you 're putting in new pipework , it might be easier to make all the holes before the cistern is taken up to the loft ; with a replacement cistern , it is important to make the holes in the correct position to take the existing pipes . |
| 8 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 9 | But most of the length is taken up by the cabin and since the Twingo is taller than a Sierra its packaging prowess is , perhaps , easier to appreciate . |
| 10 | My free time is taken up by the hairdresser and manicurist — and if I do escape them , I have to be fitted at the dressmaker 's . |
| 11 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 12 | Now that we have the front bed working and set to knit , the yarn that is not taken into the slip needle hook no longer forms a float , but is taken up by the opposite needle and is knitted whilst the slip needle still retains its original knitted stitch . |
| 13 | A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences . |
| 14 | Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield . |
| 15 | A hard disk is required with almost 16Mb of hard disk available ( some 6Mb is taken up by the opening sequence which can be removed ) , and it may be necessary to allow the program to make its own boot disk if you do not have enough available memory . |
| 16 | The width of standard film is 35mm ; part of the width is taken up by the sprocket holes , and the picture or ‘ frame ’ size is 24mm X 36mm . |
| 17 | This issue is taken up in the next chapter where some of the rules of company law that support the functioning of the market are examined . |
| 18 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 19 | The story is taken up in the next extract : |
| 20 | Because a very large part of any president 's time is taken up in the ceremonial , in the ritual , in meeting heads of states from other countries , from opening the equivalents of garden fetes , receiving parties of boy scouts , er and whatever else the Queen and her family do these days . |