Example sentences of "is taken up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The remaining space in the window is taken up with the currently selected command sequence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences . |
| 13 | Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 18 | The story is taken up in the next extract : |
| 19 | 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 . |