Example sentences of "[noun pl] and take up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toshiba Corp has come out with a low-price , high performance version of the Dynabook laptop , the Dynabook 486E J-3100VS , which uses an 80486SX and has a 9.6″ 16 grey-scale monochrome display on the $2,390 version , with a colour thin-film transistor screen available for an additional $2,133 ; the unit weighs 5 lbs and takes up to 16Mb memory ; a desktop version , the J-3100S/VX , based on the Intel 80486DX2 , at $3,440 was launched at the same time . |
| 2 | They summon the overseers before the magistrates for not complying with their unreasonable demands and though they do not always gain their ends yet it teases and harasses the overseers and takes up their time which is a great hardship . |
| 3 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 4 | He sent for one man and Chennaa , swallowed some cold meat and wine and , wrapping himself in a dry cloak , went and mounted the camel , crooning love-talk as she rose to her feet and took up her soft , swaying gait . |
| 5 | They had emphasised agitation on the concrete issues of electoral reform and discrimination in housing and employment , but NICRA originally operated as a body which made representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and took up individual cases of infringement of rights . |
| 6 | Students should stand ready to explain and to defend their views ; and to listen to counter views and take up a further position if the balance of the contending positions points that way . |
| 7 | Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures . |
| 8 | During the 1860s a few isolated attempts to form close-knit organizations overlapped with more widespread efforts to develop educational circles for workers and to take up posts as village teachers or medical assistants in order to establish links with the peasants . |
| 9 | Girobank charges a flat fee of £5 whatever the transfer value , but only to specific foreign banks and taking up to 10 working days . |
| 10 | Girobank charges a flat fee of £5 whatever the transfer value , but only to specific foreign banks and taking up to 10 working days . |
| 11 | Girobank charges a flat fee of £5 whatever the transfer value , but only to specific foreign banks and taking up to 10 working days . |
| 12 | It is critical at this stage , though , that the head conveys positive messages and takes up the opportunities on offer . |
| 13 | It is merely my desire that you complete your studies and take up a form of employ that may be useful for my purposes at some time in the future . |
| 14 | With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow . |
| 15 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 16 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 17 | Eventually comes a moment when you find you can remember without necessarily feeling sad , and this is the time to begin life again , to renew old interests and take up new pursuits . |
| 18 | I remind the House that multiple questions lead to multiple answers and take up time . |
| 19 | Floorboards tend to be fitted in long lengths and taking up a whole length is an unnecessary bore . |
| 20 | Having won the vote , women were able to make good their claims to the right to sit on juries and to take up seats in Parliament and local government . |
| 21 | The pressed steel system unit case is bulky by today 's standards and takes up quite a lot of desk space . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Shakespeare was , in fact , a retired pirate , who , after losing his right hand to a round of chain-shot on the Spanish Main , gave up the life of brigandry on the high seas and took up writing as a hobby to pass the time . |