Example sentences of "for taking [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your son resents his stepbrother for taking up your time , and is worried that you do n't love him any more . |
| 2 | Those with a second home should pay at least double the community charge for the area , then they would be making some recompense for taking up properties that could be used for people who need them . |
| 3 | In his Directions for Taking up Plants and Shrubs and Conveying Them by Sea , John Fothergill suggested placing seeds among specimens in boxes , some of which might succeed if the plants failed . |
| 4 | The wide mouth might be thought of as a kind of lawn mower for taking up vast quantities of grass to support their huge bodies . |
| 5 | Meetings are infamous for taking up time when people claim they would otherwise be doing ‘ proper ’ work . |
| 6 | On 20 September 1791 , trustees for taking up the Camden lease were appointed . |
| 7 | With my husband 's increasing involvement with homoeopathy , I viewed with interest the impressive , but off-putting , tomes which contained the gems of homoeopathic philosophy and materia medica , but had no enthusiasm for taking up yet another area of study , and particularly not one as arduous as homoeopathy . |
| 8 | She started on Adam for taking up that shameful suggestion about selling what she called the family silver . |
| 9 | Sister Casualty handled them all magnificently , each patient differently , and yet each one as if he or she was her sole reason for taking up nursing . |
| 10 | Van de Vall ( 1970 ) showed that among Dutch unionists the most prevalent motive for taking up membership was to secure individual ‘ conflict insurance ’ ( i.e. the provision of legal and material assistance in possible disputes with the employer and protection against arbitrary management decisions ) . |
| 11 | There are those with mandibulate or biting mouthparts , such as the Orthopteroid orders and the Coleoptera , those with piercing and suctorial mouthparts such as the Hemiptera , Siphunculata , Siphonaptera and some Diptera , and those with more or less elongate , haustellate mouthparts adapted for taking up liquids without piercing ( e.g. Lepidoptera and some Diptera and Hymenoptera ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 13 | ‘ Then , having declared undying worship of the poor girl , you proceeded to slag her off for taking up with Lewis . ’ |
| 14 | He was a master stylist , a sharp , satirical observer of the social scene with an unfailing capacity for taking up a variety of interests , and the ability to persuade his readers to share his enthusiasms , however out-of-the-way . |
| 15 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 16 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 17 | Cheltenham MP Nigel Jones said Gloucestershire had been underfunded compared to others , but he failed in his bid and earned a rebuke for taking up too much time . |
| 18 | I infer from that he may have had reasons other than professional ones for taking on the employment you offered him . |
| 19 | Many thanks to them from all our branch members for taking on the job of producing our newsletter which is such a vital link and source of information for the membership . |
| 20 | ‘ Hardly the time for taking on avoidable hazards . ’ |
| 21 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 22 | You are a natural for taking on positions of power and authority but sometimes you act like a domestic Goat instead of the mountain variety and allow yourself to become tethered to some safe little post . |
| 23 | More importantly , the financial and time pressures on heads of houses have become so acute as to leave little appetite among senior publishing people for taking on additional responsibilities . |
| 24 | It is staffed by three fulltime teachers , and its aims are similar to the Arbour Project in that it provides continuing education , it takes girls through their pregnancies physically , educationally , emotionally and socially to produce healthy babies and mothers , and it tries to help girls achieve a level of maturity for taking on responsible parenthood . |
| 25 | And he had , after all , his own private reason for taking on the job . |
| 26 | It could not possibly be , could it , that the man responsible for taking on the loan , the then chairman of Keyser Ullman , Mr Edward du Cann MP , is spending the parliamentary recess leading a debt-collecting bandit gang in Sardinia ? " |
| 27 | But skipper was then obliged to sail to a mark to fulfil a penalty imposed by the race officials for taking on a new sail in Hobart to replace one lost during the second leg . |
| 28 | In his Materia Medica the Greek Dioscorides listed some two hundred kinds of stone , including oxides , suggesting that friable ones be reduced to powder for taking internally and hard ones worn as amulets . |
| 29 | All the creatures that we have to kill and eat , all those that we have to strike down and destroy to make clothes for ourselves , have souls , like we have , souls that do not perish with the body , and which must therefore be propitiated lest they should avenge themselves on us for taking away their bodies ( see Rasmussen , 1929 ) . |
| 30 | Every one of the Pack was firmly resolved never to give the new farmer cause for taking away their wonderful meeting-place from them . |