Example sentences of "that took up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 2 | Lankester suggested that the driving force of progress was the struggle of organisms to cope with environmental challenge , and warned that degeneration threatened any species that took up a less stimulating environment . |
| 3 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 4 | which we certainly were n't doing , were we , in the last last year er review and the mechanics of the fax service we already thought that took up a lot of hours you know just putting , faxing them through , receiving them |
| 5 | Zambia sucked the Munchis to softness before swallowing them , a procedure that took up the whole of the half-hour programme . |
| 6 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 7 | DeVore turned briefly to smile at Berdichev before returning his attention to the scene on the other side of the one-way mirror that took up the whole of one wall of the study . |