Example sentences of "be taken [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 A final problem is that these substances may be taken up into the blood supply as it passes through the brain and carried to other parts of the body where they may have toxic effects that confound their effects on the nervous system .
32 The colonic epithelial cell is probably the major site of metabolism of 5-ASA and because the N-acetyltransferase enzyme is cytosolic , 5-ASA must be taken up into the cell before acetylation .
33 Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them !
34 That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species .
35 Doctors who are aware of such appointments in their hospitals ( or plans for them ) should notify the JCC 's secretariat of the circumstances so that they may be taken up with the department without delay .
36 This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time .
37 CONCERN about the freeze on its annual grant is to be taken up with the Scottish Arts Council by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which had expected an increase of at least 3 per cent .
38 In any case most of the time required will be taken up at the beginning , in the planning and drawing out of the plan on paper , in choosing the plants , and in soil preparation and planting .
39 I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions .
40 This means that salad crops are excellent subjects for catch cropping in space that will later be taken up as the autumn and winter crops grow to their mature sizes .
41 Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations .
42 Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’
43 Every militiaman in Lebanon should perhaps be taken up to the Dog River to see these memorials to pride and power .
44 As always with cohort measures , the data can not be taken up to the present day without a considerable element of projection ( broken line ) of the generation rate .
45 As in the past , a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund , and this will take the place of the regular second collection .
46 The usual collection is to be taken up for the Communications work of the Church .
47 Once you have decided to see an applicant , any references given in the application form ( or c.v. ) , including telephone references , should be taken up before the interview .
48 True enough , but to be incorporated into the protein the radioactive amino acid has first to be taken up from the bloodstream into the neurons .
49 Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works .
50 The proposal , which will probably be taken up by the NUS , is for a ‘ national crèche scheme ’ .
51 Relocation company counsellors assigned to families moving to Britain also provide information on activities that may be taken up by the spouse .
52 Quite a bit of space will be taken up by the timing mechanism and , of course , it will have to be weighted to give it negative buoyancy . ’
53 — Developing an analysis of society and the Church which will isolate the key tasks which should be taken up by the prophetic sector in the Church .
54 " The Chairman after a few opening remarks intimated to the Meeting that the Debate would be taken up by the Revd.
55 I put a trimmed log in its place , to be taken up by the stair .
56 However , these recommendations have yet to be taken up by the profession and corporate reports in the business sector have largely remained concerned with fulfilling the statutory duties relating to reporting profit and loss .
57 It was announced that remaining unresolved issues would be taken up by the START negotiating teams in Geneva , and both sides stressed their determination to complete the drafting by the end of 1990 .
58 The colonic epithelial cell is probably the major site of acetylation of 5-ASA when the drug is delivered in an appropriate way to the colon , and as the N-acetyltransferase enzyme is cytosolic , 5-ASA must be taken up by the epithelial cell before acetylation can take place .
59 If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders .
60 They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain .
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