Example sentences of "take up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 2 | Ten-year-old Opal ( Gaby Hoffmann ) and 15-year-old Erica ( Samantha Mathis ) simmer with resentment at their mother 's abandonment and completely flip their tiny lids when she takes up with talent spotter Arnold Moss ( Dan Aykroyd ) . |
| 3 | There could be more awareness of the ways in which women with children can get out of the home to meet socially or take up outside employment , and more facilities to increase those opportunities . |
| 4 | Our main concern is with linear polymers and the ordered or semi-ordered structures which they may take up in solution , in the melt or in the solid state . |
| 5 | This is usually taken to reflect a generalized normative expectation that women are the appropriate carers ; although empirical evidence about normative expectations is actually fairly sparse ( a point which I shall take up in chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | Many readers will be troubled , however , by one aspect of political integrity , which we might well take up in advance . |
| 7 | yes , but its not there if I 've had it all out in it ? , you took up to bed with him that 's why you ca n't |
| 8 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |
| 9 | In taking up on green and environmental issues , it will give the G M B a much higher profile , and make non-members and the general public alike more aware of the good things that we are striving for on their behalf . |
| 10 | It is an issue that the National Council for Voluntary Organisations is taking up on behalf of the whole voluntary sector after consultation with NACAB staff . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Since the cases before the court are concerned with the taking up of fishing activities by nationals of a member state and the pursuit of those activities in another member state using a vessel registered in that state , article 59 of the E.E.C Treaty on freedom to provide services , which was raised by the Spanish Government , does not seem to me to be applicable . |
| 12 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 13 | Thus it was taken up as part of a larger review of education in general , and teachers ' conditions of service in particular . |
| 14 | Our mourning can only be taken up into joy when we bring it back to Jesus Christ . |
| 15 | Now it is , now this matter has been taken up on behalf of the company , by the constitutary European Member of Parliament John Tomlinson and colleagues . |
| 16 | NGF is normally taken up at nerve terminals and transported along the nerve fibres to the cell body , where it presumably regulates the amount of peptide . |
| 17 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 18 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 19 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |
| 20 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 21 | And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers . |
| 22 | Although Cuvier himself made no use of the theological implications of this approach , it was taken up with enthusiasm by British exponents of the argument from design . |
| 23 | Thatcher ) led the charge on enlargement and that that particular banner has been taken up with enthusiasm by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 24 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 25 | The application does nothing to retain the existing trees on the site , it was a , it is , a mature garden with some mature trees , and all those trees are to be removed , it certainly does n't do anything to retain the rural character of the na of the village , and certainly does n't enhance the character of the adjoining small er rural cottages , i in fact it would be , it could be argued that it damages the rural environment , because the development is such that it is more suited for an urban development , almost a city centre , because the comment has been made that there is only about a metre between the dwellings and indeed there is only a metre between the dwellings and the adjoining boundaries , surely there is a need for screening , it is in a in a very very prominent position , it can be seen clearly as you enter the village from the Farnsfield area , the present proposal does n't provide sufficient room for screening , and and like the screen which is adjacent to this building , which are set well back from the road , and provide an opportunity for screening the single access to the site and the fact that the frontage to these two properties is completely taken up with garaging and with vehicle access does n't even provide an opportunity to screen . |
| 26 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 27 | Most of our free time in the afternoons and evenings is taken up with preparation , as the Chinese want us to produce detailed summaries in advance of our lectures . |
| 28 | His time since then has been taken up with self-examination — ‘ finding my real identity , trying to reorganise my own language combining western techniques with the voices from my earliest experience . ’ |
| 29 | The rest of the week has been taken up with dance rehearsals which , thanks to my futile flailings , are usually hysterical . |
| 30 | Once in government in the late 1970s and early 1980s , Hall 's deregulatory message was taken up with alacrity . |