Example sentences of "take up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Peters , assistant to Beck at Cambridge , takes up a similar role . |
| 2 | The new system will run under MS-DOS or Windows , transmits at a faster 10Mbps than its predecessor and takes up a fifth less memory space : 37Kb on a satellite , 46Kb on a server . |
| 3 | It would not be practical because the paper information system takes up a vast amount of space , something which is sorely at a premium in many bureaux premises . |
| 4 | That 's a vast erm that takes up a vast erm proportion of the market . |
| 5 | Instead of fleeing to a safe place and hiding away there with complete body concealment , the animal takes up a semi-hidden position from which it can remain watchful . |
| 6 | Well-established clematis plants develop a large root system that takes up a great deal of water . |
| 7 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 8 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 9 | The poetic purpose of Genette 's Narrative Discourse is curiously complemented by his study of Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu which takes up a good portion of the book . |
| 10 | Although the intensive system of subject assessment takes up a good deal of time , it has been well received by these two centres . |
| 11 | That 's right , well that 's takes up a good deal of time . |
| 12 | As it is , the three months ' requirement in Northern Ireland results in the disentitlement to vote of persons who would undoubtedly be able to vote in Great Britain , for example any person previously resident only in Great Britain who abandons his old residence and takes up a new one in Northern Ireland within three months of the qualifying date . |
| 13 | COMMANDER George Ness , head of Scotland Yard 's Flying Squad and tactical firearms unit , retires next week and takes up a new post with Securicor — whose cash delivery vans have been the target of the armed robbers his detectives risk their lives hunting down . |
| 14 | Nigel Carr is back in the Ulster fold and takes up a new responsibility as a selector |
| 15 | Your opponent takes up a left fighting stance , that is with the left leg leading . |
| 16 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 17 | The next chapter takes up a particular , rather special case of explosive , runaway evolution , the case that Darwin called sexual selection . |
| 18 | The 7960 takes up a third less space than its predecessor and features a new intelligent learning cache algorithm . |
| 19 | And tomorrow night we look at the work which takes up a third of the RSPCA 's time , dealing with farmers and their livestock . |
| 20 | The airport already takes up a significant proportion of the island 's land area , and lengthening the runway will be difficult and expensive for the fragile economy . |
| 21 | Body language is with us night and day but something else which takes up a fair amount of time in our lives is travel . |
| 22 | Priddle takes up the poisoned chalice for PWRs |
| 23 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 24 | The calendar , with dates of school holidays clearly marked , takes up the central panel of the sheet , around the edge are further panels containing information about staff , governors , PTA , emergency contacts , useful phone numbers and how long children should be kept off school for mumps , measles and other common childhood illnesses . |
| 25 | The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture . |
| 26 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 27 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 28 | The Government takes up the financial burden through the Public Service Obligation grant , but economies are still expected . |
| 29 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 30 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |