Example sentences of "take up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priddle takes up the poisoned chalice for PWRs |
| 2 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 6 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 7 | The Government takes up the financial burden through the Public Service Obligation grant , but economies are still expected . |
| 8 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) . |
| 11 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 12 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 13 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 14 | And Isaiah takes up the same theme in the fifty fifth chapter . |
| 15 | You do need some space to work , though ; the AccuCard needs clearance of around two inches , which may take up the adjacent slot . |
| 16 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose all the sorting out at the flat will take up the spare time for quite a while . |
| 18 | I will take up the latter point both in my Department and with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 19 | Secondly , two in-depth case studies ( probably of Birmingham and Manchester ) will take up the central question of why some women 's initiatives are effective while others , with initially similar aims are not . |
| 20 | I shall take up the individual cases that the hon. Gentleman has brought to my attention and give as detailed an answer on them as possible . |
| 21 | My school grades would plummet , I 'd become virtually anorexic and I 'd take up the oddest hobbies to please my loved one . |
| 22 | Presumably Hurd and Baker do not mean by this that Hamas , the Gaza-based fundamentalist movement dedicated to destroying Israel ( unlike the PLO ) , should take up the official torch of Palestinian independence ! |
| 23 | But the day was saved by Everett , who agreed — after pressurizing his boss , Alastair Morton — that Guinness Mahon would take up the remaining shares . |
| 24 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 25 | However , now back in London and feeling more adventurous , I shall take up the wooden spoon once again and brave the kitchen . |
| 26 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 27 | To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket . |
| 28 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 29 | The portfolio of Mohamed Ghanouchi was altered from Planning and Finance to Economy and Finance ; Tahar Azaiez took up the new post of Minister of Professional Training and Employment ; Ahmed Khaled became Minister of Culture and Information ; and Ali Chabi was appointed as Secretary of State for Religious Affairs . |
| 30 | On Aug. 10 a Supreme Court judge , Giuseppe di Gennaro , 68 , took up the new post of director of the DIA on a provisional basis . |