Example sentences of "[be] taken up with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 2 | A large part of Eva 's day would be taken up with letters , phone calls , management meetings , finance boards , councils , and committees . |
| 3 | Other weekends may be taken up with Clarissa 's dog shows or fund-raising flag days and jumble sales . |
| 4 | Much of the information system would unfortunately be taken up with information about the assortment of opening hours of individual bureaux . |
| 5 | Thatcher ) led the charge on enlargement and that that particular banner has been taken up with enthusiasm by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 6 | The rest of the week has been taken up with dance rehearsals which , thanks to my futile flailings , are usually hysterical . |
| 7 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 8 | His time since then has been taken up with self-examination — ‘ finding my real identity , trying to reorganise my own language combining western techniques with the voices from my earliest experience . ’ |
| 9 | Churchill 's proposal made at The Hague for a European Assembly had been taken up with vigour by the newly formed European Movement . |
| 10 | He had recently been appointed Deputy Head in a big , new , comprehensive school in South London , and his evenings were taken up with meetings and an occasional television programme : the comprehensive principle was attracting a lot of public interest and Richard was good at arguing and putting a case , besides looking very handsome on the screen . |
| 11 | Soon it was term time again and evening were taken up with swimming , Brownies and piano . |
| 12 | There was a trestle table and a huge stool , the rest of the room being taken up with leather and wooden caskets of all sizes . |
| 13 | She must be awfully unhappy now he 's taken up with April . |
| 14 | Most of our free time in the afternoons and evenings is taken up with preparation , as the Chinese want us to produce detailed summaries in advance of our lectures . |
| 15 | By far the largest portion of time in Art teaching is taken up with painting . |
| 16 | Most of Vertus 's hectarage is taken up with Chardonnay vines , but , interestingly , the 85 hectares of Pinot Noir are descended from pre-phylloxera vines brought from the famous Burgundy village of Beaune . |
| 17 | About half the tie the police spend investigating crime , is taken up with form filling and bureaucracy . |
| 18 | Of this , 250 or so is taken up with lighting , leaving a little over 3,000 watts for water heating . |
| 19 | Although there is a school of thought that , if the vendor is besieged with questions , its management will be too occupied to negotiate with anyone other than the purchaser , it is important to consider who is operating the business if the full time attention of senior management is taken up with demands for information . |
| 20 | From the beginning of Chapter 1 onwards the majority of this book is taken up with assertions described as theorems ( or lemmas or corollaries ) followed by explanations purporting to be " proofs " . |
| 21 | But , as a general principle , Northern Ireland 's social divisions ensure that police management prefer neighbourhood police to be on the street , as is their purpose , and in practice about three-quarters of the normal shift is taken up with beat duty , which is much higher than in Great Britain . |
| 22 | Every inch of available wall space was taken up with bookshelves , and every inch of shelf-space was taken up with books — books , mostly , with tattered jackets or sun-faded bindings and dating , Greg guessed , from the ‘ twenties , ‘ thirties and ‘ forties — presentation copies , review copies and remaindered copies among them . |
| 23 | Once in government in the late 1970s and early 1980s , Hall 's deregulatory message was taken up with alacrity . |
| 24 | Simon had a desk and three telephones near the door and the rest of the place was taken up with racks of costumes and boxes of party stuff such as balloons and streamers . |
| 25 | Although Cuvier himself made no use of the theological implications of this approach , it was taken up with enthusiasm by British exponents of the argument from design . |
| 26 | Duthie ( 1970 ) , in studying the teacher 's day , estimated that about one-third of a teacher 's time was taken up with duties of a non-professional nature which ‘ auxiliaries ’ could undertake . |
| 27 | I said I thought a great deal of time was taken up with Committees . |
| 28 | Of course it could be objected that the responses highlight this facet of the housewife role because much of the rest of the interview was taken up with questions about housework . |
| 29 | Photo reproduction was bad , headlines eccentric , and little of the paper was taken up with London . |
| 30 | Every inch of available wall space was taken up with bookshelves , and every inch of shelf-space was taken up with books — books , mostly , with tattered jackets or sun-faded bindings and dating , Greg guessed , from the ‘ twenties , ‘ thirties and ‘ forties — presentation copies , review copies and remaindered copies among them . |