Example sentences of "take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once egg laying is complete , the female retires to a safe distance and the male takes up a guard position under the nest . |
| 2 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 3 | Anya has risen from her seat , takes up a position facing Rainbow , at the opposite end of the mantelpiece . |
| 4 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
| 5 | Under that scheme , owners who face being made homeless due to mortgage arrears are allowed to stay in their homes as tenants for 12 months as the council takes up a head lease . |
| 6 | And as a little extra , the whole family is remembered through the generosity of the school 's industrial ‘ twin ’ — Triton plc , Britain 's leading shower manufacturer — which offers £10 cash back for every Triton shower purchased at Payless DIY , Nuneaton when your child takes up a place at Manor Park . |
| 7 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 8 | Without wanting to state the obvious , the SJ-20 is a big guitar that takes up a lot of room . |
| 9 | There is always the old technique of adjusting bridle length with an overhand hitch to shorten the line ; but for sport kites , the knot itself takes up a lot of line . |
| 10 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |
| 11 | Left : Storing water at room temperature and aerating takes up a lot of space but may be worthwhile — the bucket on the right may have had salt added , but the SG tester also incorporates a thermometer . |
| 12 | It also takes up a lot of memory for OPEN , remembering all states which might lead to a solution . |
| 13 | In addition it takes up a lot more room than its rival although , even in copy protected form , it can be installed on a Winchester without needing a key disk . |
| 14 | It is n't a large place , but it takes up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 15 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 16 | This all takes up a lot of time ; we are under great pressure today . |
| 17 | ‘ I expect that takes up a lot of your time ? ’ |
| 18 | She says her husband has another business — which takes up a lot of time . |
| 19 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |
| 20 | Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number . |
| 21 | The pigeon is released and takes up a stance nearby . |
| 22 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 23 | He takes up a job as a pilot shuttling planes between a Greek island and the mainland , but is eventually able to vindicate himself when his old ship reaches the Aegean . |
| 24 | A League title and European Cup winner with Aston Villa , Swain takes up the Springfield Park post next Monday . |
| 25 | The man of wealth and pride Takes up the space that many poor supplied ; |
| 26 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 27 | Sentence ( 3 ) takes up the content of its predecessor by repeating the whole phrase " he would have liked to hear " ; ( 10 ) repeats the word weakness from ( 9 ) ; in ( 5 ) , " this cynical confession " refers , in different words , to the " casual observation " just mentioned in ( 4 ) . |
| 28 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 29 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 30 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |