Example sentences of "be [adv] taken up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Article 17 — the provision of aid to assist joint investment schemes by farmers for fodder production and for ‘ the improvement and equipping of pastures ’ , perhaps also drainage — could have implications in the LFAs in the UK but the existing , very similar provisions have not been widely taken up . |
| 2 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 3 | He stood with his hands in his pockets and she realised she had been so taken up with her seemingly childish pursuit that she had not even heard the car arrive . |
| 4 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 5 | It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated . |
| 6 | To receive the full benefit of the policy , therefore , it must be held to maturity , particularly since the first two years ' premiums are largely taken up in charges . |
| 7 | And , Carol , I suppose your spare time activities are largely taken up with your family these days ? |
| 8 | What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ? |
| 9 | Thirdly while both the Act and The Stock Exchange rules allow fractional entitlements to be ignored , they differ as regards the treatment of rights that are not taken up . |
| 10 | Conversation is sparse this morning as mild mutual curiosities are not taken up . |
| 11 | And if in fact this large area of industrial development is not taken up , you can not be sure that the bits that are not taken up will be the least environmentally sensitive . |
| 12 | There would then be other means however for us to pursue our our concerns that have n't we know er are moving into a future speculative situation , but if they 're not taken up we have other means of pursuing those , but they would n't affect the the conformity issue . |
| 13 | The challenge to increase membership has been imaginatively taken up by some groups . |
| 14 | But these sources do not themselves set standards and routines which are automatically taken up and followed . |
| 15 | Its short opera season has proved so popular that most of the tickets are now taken up by sponsors — including Glassdrumman on behalf of its guests . |
| 16 | Exposure of these sections to dyes that are selectively taken up by either the bodies of neurons or by their axons enables us to see the structure of the lesion site . |
| 17 | Their calls are immediately taken up by the whole team and the spectators on the ground so that the forest rings with wild and terrifying shrieks . |
| 18 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 19 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 20 | However , the two seats reserved for Unionist MPs were not taken up because of Unionist opposition to the 1985 Agreement ( provision for the existence of the Body , first mooted in 1980 , having been made in the Agreement ) ; Molyneaux dismissed the meeting as a " social occasion " . |
| 21 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 22 | He bought companies for cash , raised by issuing shares that were largely taken up by financial institutions . |
| 23 | Academically , the School prospered : Thomas Ashe was given a special Exhibition at St. John 's College , Cambridge ( the other two were already taken up ) , and when Howell died in August 1858 Mr. C. E. Norris , an Old Boy and a previous Goldsmiths ' Exhibitioner at St. John 's College , Cambridge , was appointed to take over . |
| 24 | Early versions of these theories were quickly taken up by clinical researchers looking for a formal way of examining what their patients — like the one above — were telling them and many experimental studies were carried out , guided by the hypothesis that schizophrenic features like overinclusive thinking are due to very weak filtration of the contents of thought , resulting in the psychotic individual finding it difficult to pursue a logically connected train of ideas . |
| 25 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 26 | The interacting actors of ( i ) a newly effective market among the young , of ( ii ) some culturally effective initiatives by the young , of which many were quickly taken up by the market , of ( iii ) a more general unwillingness by the market , in conditions of high competition , to observe the limits and pressures of established cultural reproduction , and yet ( iv ) the alarm of state and other established institutions at the sources and consequences of such cultural production , have combined to produce a situation of quite remarkable asymmetry . |
| 27 | Some suggestions were instantly taken up , as in 1925 , when five members asked for shorter carries and the committee agreed to reducing them to 120 yards , and also a later suggestion for setting aside some ground for lessons and practice . |
| 28 | Pressure on land was fairly slack in the south ( most obviously shown by the fact that when holdings were reoccupied they were often taken up by men who already held land , and not by landless men ) , whereas in the east there was no shortage of tenants , and the demand for land was maintained . |
| 29 | Morning and afternoon sessions were mainly taken up with the business of the Union and these were highlighted by the clarity of reporting and the general agreement of delegates to the proposals put forward . |
| 30 | It also became commonplace for boys to request , and be granted , extensions to their stay in the School , and the Exhibitions to Oxford and Cambridge on offer from the Company were regularly taken up . |