Example sentences of "[adv] take up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 2 | I only take up with men for what I can get out of them . ’ |
| 3 | The threats to our major estuaries alone take up considerable time and effort . |
| 4 | Installation time is largely dependant on how much disk space the files you have already take up , since what 's already there is squeezed to make room for the extra drive , and squeezing takes time . |
| 5 | Molecules thus take up a specific shape , and this shape is particularly important in the complex organic molecules formed by living systems . |
| 6 | To be honest , empty barrels just take up space on the |
| 7 | Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office . |
| 8 | They also take up an extraordinary amount of memory , the four together gobble up 91K which is more than double that required by SideKick and a quarter as much again as Spotlight . |
| 9 | Jenny Maxwell and Dawn Gill both take up the challenge of the presumed cultural and political neutrality of mathematics and , by means of an examination of the common ( and therefore frequently invisible ) setting for mathematical problems , bring to light many ( contentious ) presumptions about acceptable , appropriate and valued uses for mathematics . |
| 10 | Unable to wait on the vagaries of the election timetable , land-hungry peasants are seizing farmland in both countries , while disgruntled Nicaraguan ex-combatants from both Contra and government armies periodically take up arms and head for the hills . |
| 11 | ‘ Now take up the basket , and tell them in the village to send a horse and carriage to me immediately . |
| 12 | Apart from general recessionary influences , Ovum cites a slower take up of the technology than had been predicted as a reason . |
| 13 | Will the mothers — and the young gentlemen — and one baby — kindly take up their positions for a group picture ? ’ |
| 14 | Some parents may be encouraging their children to help at home or even take up work instead of going to school . |
| 15 | Is it possible to have the fee reimbursed if you consequently take up employment/register with the employer organising the course ? |
| 16 | The Blue Arrow prosecution was later to accuse the defendants of conspiring to rig the market — not alleging that the late take up was illegal , but that the purpose for which it was done was unlawful . |
| 17 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 18 | But classes sometimes take up ‘ class positions ’ which are out of line with these interests — they form alliances with classes whose interests are antagonistic to their own , adopt strategies doomed to defeat , and so on — and the second of Poulantzas ' categories is designed to accommodate this phenomenon . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe I 'll write a book and then take up that offer to have a go for the European Parliament . ’ |
| 20 | I had to fetch the coal up from the cellar , chop the wood , light the fire , make the tea and then take up a mug each for Mum and Dad . |
| 21 | This does not , however , mean that they then take up identical positions in relation to the problem of history . |
| 22 | They then take up positions as if they were the people in the photograph . |
| 23 | Detergents readily take up dyes so virtually any colour can be provided . |
| 24 | So the organisation of personnel , budget , physical specifications of buildings , office equipment , etc. take up the rest of the project document and its appendices . |
| 25 | You can just push blue back over there and and , or if you are not happy about that just a little take up . |
| 26 | A sort of low droning chorus of ‘ Conformity good , diversity bad ’ is clearly audible beneath the public pronouncements from Bonn , the Elysee , the Bundesbank and the Commission , and the client states of Europe , the Portugals , the Italys and Greeces , who see themselves as having much to gain , obediently take up the cry . |
| 27 | We can , moreover , hear the urbane inflection of the voice where Nicholas and Alison briefly take up the fabliau narrative within the narrative , spinning the yarn of John 's foolishness : The joke is enhanced by their attribution of the elegant French phrase , par compaignye , to this " " lewed " " character . |
| 28 | Without the possibility of appropriate services there would be no take up or demand . |
| 29 | These however take up space . |
| 30 | Ian says we both ought to leave and either take up work as a married couple in another practice with a view of eventual partnership or set up on our own somewhere , a good long way from here , of course . |