Example sentences of "take up by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we needed food , more and more of my free time was taken up by teaching , even at weekends . |
| 2 | The tender procedure is similar to that for Treasury bills and as with Treasury bills , most LA bills are taken up by discount houses and clearing banks . |
| 3 | Most of the police station meeting was taken up by discussion between council officers and the police on security for the Ks and ways of dealing with the club — to which the council , just to complicate matters further , had indemnified a £100,000 loan . |
| 4 | The organism is in i is inspired into the alveolar spaces and it 's taken up by alveolar , the standard er abbreviation for macrophage and , the organism i in contrast to many others which we 've sort of er die fairly rapidly after being taken up by these phagocytic cells , says Goodee ! |
| 5 | The points raised in your meeting have been taken up by Councillor , Lothian Regional Council , who has also been in contact with me . |
| 6 | The answer to this may well be found in the careers taken up by history graduates . |
| 7 | But this is not the case as Figure 1.3 , a diagram illustrating careers taken up by history graduates , shows . |
| 8 | " Taking a spouse for granted " — in which , perhaps , something of the same reason exists — was listed by 7 per cent in respect of women and 21 per cent in respect of men ; how many men , once their wife 's attentions are taken up by child-rearing , leave them to get on with it and follow their own devices ? |
| 9 | In striving for this goal , however , DEC has sacrificed cache memory capacity — a third of the chip is actually taken up by clock buffers which dissipate half of Alpha 's notably high level — 30 Watts — of heat emission . |
| 10 | Obviously when you 're choosing a stove you have to take into account the space taken up by stove and fuel combined . |
| 11 | It is for this reason that a large part of the first consultation is taken up by conversation . |
| 12 | About 12% of radio time in Zambia was taken up by news in the various languages . |
| 13 | The 33 1/3 rpm speed was taken up by radio stations , and used for their internal purposes until the 1950s . |
| 14 | If , for example , we reduce the share of the system taken up by intervention in beef , we should be able to get that money more directly to the farmer . |
| 15 | He 'd been a social worker , then a deputy director of social services — he 'd been fired after the famous ‘ babyswap ’ scandal , but that was how he came to be taken up by FAMILY . |
| 16 | The issues of health and safety have been taken up by trade unions in the P & o ferries dispute , and the transport strikes of 1989 . |
| 17 | A major customer did er a bench mark recognizing that sixty percent of any project cost was taken up by maintenance of the code after it went live . |
| 18 | From a handful of POCs in the early Sixties , the number of cases taken up by Amnesty now stands at 42,000 of which 38,000 are now closed . |
| 19 | Thus the complex shapes taken up by protein molecules in the body may be due , at least in part , to the structural effects of the water . |
| 20 | Amidst a blaze of publicity , the resolution was quickly taken up by student bodies all over the country . |
| 21 | Like many experts in this line he finds his days are taken up by writing and talking about gardening , with precious little time left to get down to the gardening himself . |
| 22 | His case has been taken up by Justice , the all- party law reform group . |
| 23 | The degree of attention paid to physical distribution depends considerably on the proportion of total costs taken up by distribution costs . |
| 24 | The typical interviewee profile of the ‘ recreational user ’ is that of ‘ dabbling ’ at weekends , usually sharing a ‘ bag ’ with a friend , then gradually filling in the days in between until they are all taken up by heroin use . |
| 25 | Tonight , after the case was taken up by Labour 's health spokeswoman , the Health Authority has agreed to foot the bill . |
| 26 | Of the water which infiltrates into the soil , some is taken up by vegetation and is transpired and the rest either flows down-slope through the soil as interflow or throughflow until it reaches a stream channel , or sinks through the soil to become part of the groundwater . |
| 27 | She has a nice ( and one would guess , younger ) boyfriend , The First Wives Club has been a bestseller , and she has bought a country house on the proceeds of the film rights , which have been taken up by Sherry Lansing , who produced Fatal Attraction . |