Example sentences of "is take [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dundee club coach Stewart Harris , the Teamsport co-ordinator for basketball , is taking over from Lawrence Randak as coach to the student side who are preparing for the British Universities group tournament in Bath next week . |
| 2 | ‘ Frank Galvone is taking over from Ed Riverton . ’ |
| 3 | And Sally is taking over from David , it 's a handover period . |
| 4 | It is an issue that the National Council for Voluntary Organisations is taking up on behalf of the whole voluntary sector after consultation with NACAB staff . |
| 5 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems Inc is taking out after Hewlett-Packard Co with worldwide trade-in program aimed at moving Apollo/Domain users to Sun 's RISC-based boxes : Sun will accept any Apollo or HP workstation in working order . |
| 7 | The question was : if a broad view is taken both in terms of the areas covered and the nature of the potential solutions , is it possible to improve the environment and safety of large areas , or even whole towns , by adopting a package of measures that are simple and inexpensive , but because they are integrated , are more effective than single measures would be on their own ? |
| 8 | One might however comment that it is possibly the case that those theologians whose views are now quoted as the word of God , or whose theological reasoning is taken over without question , may not have believed theology to exist independently of human knowledge or social conditions . |
| 9 | Whenever any area is taken over for construction purposes , an improved replacement is made elsewhere . |
| 10 | fewer jobs may be required as routine work is taken over by machines |
| 11 | It is taken over by Goblins and fortified . |
| 12 | She then goes to a cat country far away which is taken over by bandits . ’ |
| 13 | Christopher Jabelman 's body is taken away for examination , above . |
| 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 | This task of completing the sociology of knowledge with a social theory of mind is taken up by Goff ( 1980 ) , who draws together features of Marx 's and Mead 's work . |
| 23 | It is for this reason that a large part of the first consultation is taken up by conversation . |
| 24 | Ezechiel 's motif of the Greeks as merchants is taken up by Joel who accuses Tyre and Sidon and " all the coasts of Palestine " — that is the Philistines — of trading with Yavan and of selling them " the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem " ( 3.6 ) . |
| 25 | The concept is taken up by Meggitt in relation to Melanesia where he refers to ‘ ritualised ’ literacy ( Goody , 1968 ) and more recently Clammer has allowed it to influence his study of Literacy and Social Change in Fiji ( 1976 ) . |
| 26 | Dolby A becomes the norm in professional tape mastering , while the Dolby B version is taken up by manufacturers of domestic tape decks and software . |
| 27 | Most of that 39% is taken up by Hewlett-Packard , says Ybarra , pointing to HP 's endorsement of Adobe technology in its printer business , but not for its workstations . |
| 28 | Roughly half of all the CO 2 produced dissolves in the oceans , where some is photosynthesized by plants , is taken up by trees or is taken up within limestone ( calcium carbonate ) . |
| 29 | Of the water which infiltrates into the soil , some is taken up by vegetation and is transpired and the rest either flows down-slope through the soil as interflow or throughflow until it reaches a stream channel , or sinks through the soil to become part of the groundwater . |
| 30 | The same theme is taken up by Hi-Tec , who are living up to their name — and their reputation — with the introduction of their new Tennis Twist shoe . |