Example sentences of "take up [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills . |
| 2 | Clairol 's Silver Shot ( £19.95 ) is a small , compact hairdryer that wo n't take up loads of room and it has all the advantages of its bigger , professional-style counterparts . |
| 3 | It does not have all the features of a full paint package but this means that it will not take up megabytes of hard disc space . |
| 4 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 5 | And because it 's a DOS-based program , it wo n't take up masses of hard disk space . |
| 6 | We took up cases of sexual harassment as well , although it was difficult . |
| 7 | The reorganisation , which is likely to take seven weeks , will result in the food and drink section taking up 45pc of the floor space at the expense of the textiles section . |
| 8 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |
| 9 | And all , all the other things we 've listed out that have taken up time of the team were n't being done in September . |
| 10 | En Shao appeared in Liverpool two years ago , shortly before he was due to take up position of principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra where he is now installed . |
| 11 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 12 | In the United Kingdom , for example , the peerage began seriously to take up directorships of commercial companies in the 1880s : by 1896 directorships were held by 167 members of the House of Lords . |
| 13 | I just , it 's just a sort of an idea at this stage , I 'm not wanting to take up ogres of time on this , but |
| 14 | 30–4 " The court met to take up consideration of Archibald Currie 's case . |
| 15 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 16 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 17 | This is the position taken by Acker ( 1984b ) and by Rich ( 1979a ) who argues that the university is ‘ a system that prepares men to take up roles of power in a man-centred society ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 19 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |