How To Use Taken up In A Sentence
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A good deal of my time is taken up with reading critical essays and reviews.
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Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play.
Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
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(C and D) CG14217 is present at high levels in the pole plasm and is taken up by the pole cells.
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Some of those nearest to him fell naturally into the habit of referring to him as “the King,” and in time the title crept out of the immediate household and was taken up by others who loved him.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg,
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
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The Nobel laureate Richard Feynman once made a tentative suggestion that a theory uniting quantum mechanics and relativity might lead to an objective state reduction, and others have taken up and built on this idea.
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Many of the Confederates were of opinion that this decisive victory would be the end of the war, and that the North, seeing that the South was able as well as willing to defend the position it had taken up, would abandon the idea of coercing it into submission.
With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War
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Might not that message been taken up by my immune system?
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He had, so the court was told, taken up with a 'widgie-type' girl who had the 'unstable combination of an adult body and an immature mind'.
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I put a trimmed log in its place, to be taken up by the stair.
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No fluorophore was taken up when either the excimer or the ruby laser was used to generate the shock wave.
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When taken up by obstacles, beta particles produce a more penetrative secondary radiation known as bremsstrahlung.
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A soccer player and runner in high school, he had taken up outrigger canoeing before the accident.
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But however many were in the household, we would know that in her setting, her days would ordinarily be taken up with the hard, unrecompensed work of women of all ages: to feed and clothe and nurture her growing household.
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The citizens' responses to four questions in the World Values Survey questionnaire have been taken up for detailed analysis.
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Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes.
Celtic Mythology
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As it sets in motion the election of the next Pope, it serves as a reminder that the papacy is not passed on but taken up afresh — that it is recast by each man who occupies the office, and that the process by which a new Pope is chosen is something other than a simple succession.
In Search of a Pope
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The animal had the character of being, contrary to what his species usually are, exceedingly savage; and he suffered himself to be taken up by me and carried from his foes with a kind of sullenness; but when, being out of the reach of danger, he was put down, he gazed on his deliverer, and then crouched at his feet.
The Dog
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Many of these topics will be taken up and discussed in greater detail in subsequent chapters.
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Enough interest was shown in this suggestion to give hope that it may be taken up.
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During the negotiations between the Home Government and the Pretoria Executive that followed the Conference, and especially during the period of Mr. Hofmeyr's active intervention, his most necessary and pressing task was to prevent the Salisbury Cabinet from being "jockeyed" by Boer diplomacy out of the advantageous position which he had then taken up on its behalf.
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
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Since Christmas, I've taken four pairs of trousers to a tailor, paying £8 each time to have them taken up an inch.
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SO you have bought the surround sounds amp & speakers. the speaker stands and all the wires. you have bought the best sound you can afford … … … … then settle on an inferior picture because of the size of tv, you say that you have limited floor space so what are you doing with it NOW, are you displaying some rare and ancient artefact, is your new stand taken up that same space you needed so much or do you just have more floor to clean.
Mitsubishi’s New LaserVue TVs: First Impressions - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Each eye forms a cluster of roots, and furnishes a very fine stock, which is taken up after winter.
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The local MP has taken up the case of the family of six who have been left homeless.
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Now he has taken up hillwalking.
Times, Sunday Times
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the main point on the agenda was taken up first
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The merchant's cause is taken up by three old men, who cajole the jinni into postponing the execution until they tell their stories.
Old Tales That Still Seduce
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His weekends were taken up with stock car racing.
Christianity Today
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To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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Next year my expert knowledge of haute couture and female form should be taken up.
The Sun
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In this meaning it was originally US slang, I believe, taken up and rapidly naturalised in Britain only after World War Two.
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It is no wonder then that such an off-beat and romantic story was immediately taken up and embellished by the media.
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At the premiere Handel gave an organ extemporisation on the fugal subject taken up by the choir.
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The young man is so lucky that he is taken up by a famous novelist.
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In past storms, it has taken up to three days just to cut through the drifts.
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A strike call by the Sacred Union on Feb. 3 was taken up by workers across the country.
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Pranger and her family enjoyed sneaking out at night with a flashlight to peek at the dragonfly nymphs and tiny, two-inch-long tree frogs that had taken up residence in the ponds.
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How much of the tennis commentary was taken up with that big attic window?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was very early in the morning when the corn-stealer was discovered; but being caught in the act, and his whole attention taken up with the sweet milky ears of maize, his "spectacled" eyes did not avail him.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
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He is put in the car and driven to casualty, yet another client for the overworked hospital staff, yet another bed being taken up by a person who has drank themselves into oblivion.
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The findings were quickly taken up by Governor McCrory, who called a press conference on the issue.
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The Swede may have taken up his highly-paid job imagining that landing the World Cup was all that mattered to English football: he knows better now.
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Once settled, he sought out people with whom he could share some of his cultural traditions - those free-thinkers who had taken up vegetarianism and theosophy.
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It has urged the government do more to encourage women into jobs usually taken up by men.
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Inside the room one corner was taken up with a deep enamel sink and a small cupboard above for crockery.
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Half the space is taken up by a picture of a violin - ah yes, but one with a broken string.
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The sewer system had a very low ceiling and much of the path was taken up by a stream of thick, black sludge that oozed sickeningly towards some central point.
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That they are obstinate and pertinacious is also a cheap supposal, taken up without the price of a proof.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Then, of all things, she'd taken up spinning and needlework and all those feminine accomplishments she'd always scorned in favor of roping and riding.
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The plan of a slave ship issued by Clarkson was also extensively taken up and became an antislavery print.
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When she returned he had taken up the sketchbook and was looking at it.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Addressing businessmen at the Durban Country Club, Mdlalose said in a speech prepared for delivery: "These on-the-ground endeavours have resulted in more than 94000 square metres of lettable factory space being taken up, the creation of over 4680 new job opportunities and an influx of over R176 million in new monies.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Bezique in its original version was soon taken up by the UK and became an extremely popular game in the mid-Nineteenth Century.
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John Stuart Mill remarked that Grote's History was written ‘with the precision and minuteness of one who neither desires nor expects that anything will be taken upon trust’.
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Giving details about the business transacted during the Session, Lone said that out of 555 questions received for the Session which included 311 starred and 244 un-starred, 450 were taken up for oral and written replies, adding that only 41 questions were taken up during the current Session on which 189 supplementaries were asked by the Members.
Speaker adjourns J&K Legislative Assembly Sine-Die
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The fishermen want the issue to be taken up by the Department because, they argue, some countries affected by the ban have now introduced the usage of pingers to allow them catch tuna by the pre-ban method.
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Has he gone on a crash diet or taken up vigorous exercise?
Times, Sunday Times
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By July though, it was reported from Beltana that no payable gold had been found, but that some good reefs had been taken up.
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Once the iron sheet is buffed to give it the dull sheen the engraving work is taken up.
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Parsons, a good actress who has disastrously taken up directing in recent years, directed the whole silly adventure.
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Abraham answered, ‘Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.’
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The findings were quickly taken up by Gov. Pat McCrory, who called a press conference on the issue.
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The writer is in her late twenties and has taken up freelancing as a career.
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I had your letter this night, as told you just and no more in my last; for this must be taken up in answering yours, saucebox.
The Journal to Stella
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Regular staff and police patrols are being made on the estate and any reported incidents of damage or nuisance will be taken up by the police.
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If these reforms are taken up, there will be three probable outcomes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evening Prayer II for August 15 features this antiphon: ‘The Virgin Mary was taken up to the heavenly bridal chamber where the King of kings is seated on a starry throne.’
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Nalamdana, a charitable trust, screened a short film depicting various projects taken up by the street theatre group during its decennial celebrations held recently.
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Firstly, there is more space taken up by the favourites on screen, enabling a longer list of favourites without scrolling.
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Radice claims cargo taken up by space shuttle from Earth can be offloaded onto an orbiting ‘tether’.
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Wesley's doctrine of what he called perfect love, his idea of an experience subsequent to conversion, that was later taken up by the holiness movement as a kind of an attempt to revive Wesleyan perfectionism.
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They had not died away, before they were taken up and repeated, east, west, and north and south, by shriller, more pervading clangors.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)
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George Hatsopoulos, the thermodynamicist who founded Thermoelectron Corp., has found his way to economist Dale Jor-genson and the concept of the cost of capital and introduced them to discussions of international competitiveness; he has also taken up with the Federal Reserve system as chairman of one of its regional banks.
Economic Principals
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The single was a worldwide No 1 hit in 1966 and was taken up as an anti-war anthem by activists opposed to the Vietnam war.
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It has taken up jatropha cultivation in a major way.
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Most of the book is taken up with thumbnails of the films and their stars.
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His courtiers have been summoned but these first two hours are taken up with swimming.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Gibbs denied it, and said the blistering was the effect of frost, as the negro was much exposed to it before being taken up.
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
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The former Indian President A. P.J.Abdul Kalam said and believed that every Indian should be proud of the Chandrayaan, the country's first moon mission programme taken up by ISRO. He visited the Indian Deep Space Network and the gant antenna here and expressed his desire to see an Indian scientist land on the moon by 2021.
Every Indian should be proud of Chandrayaan,says Kalam
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A Venetian nobleman, who had, on some late occasion, provoked the hatred of Orsino, had been way-laid and poniarded by hired assassins: and, as the murdered person was of the first connections, the Senate had taken up the affair.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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As yet no gene responsible for a Mo transporter has been identified, although there is some evidence that molybdate may be taken up by the phosphate and/or sulphate transporter.
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A soccer player and runner in high school, he had taken up outrigger canoeing before the accident.
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The upper part of the garden is taken up with a striking parterre, in which a floral arch surrounds a young monkey-puzzle tree, and neat gravel paths are surrounded by beds of flowers.
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Phytates are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream and readily taken up by tumour cells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three of us shared that space; half of the cell was taken up by the bed - a raised concrete platform with raffia mats.
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Case in point, a few beavers had taken up upriver from a campground.
Quick thoughts about Global Warming
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He's taken up the post of supervisor.
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Downstairs again she investigated the stove, then unpacked her luggage and put aside things that had to be taken upstairs.
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For my character Jo, that sense in midlife -- in mid happy life, it might be said -- of doors closing, of the falling away of the possibility of surprise, of being taken over by something, taken up, that is painful, and her pain has nothing to do with her marriage, beyond the predictability of its being comfortable, "good.
An Interview with Sue Miller
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But a good half of each twenty-second increment was typically taken up with preliminaries and formalities.
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The patient was taken up for surgery 15 days after initiation of oral hematinics when his hemoglobin was measured to be 10.8 g.
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Many persons fancy that the Cape bulbs require to be taken up every year, but this is altogether a mistake: all the kinds of gladiolus, ixia, tritonia, and other similar plants, will live in the open ground, and flower well, if suffered to grow in masses, which would be killed by a single English winter if planted separately.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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It has really affected my studies and has taken up two years of my life.
The Sun
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He's taken up the post of supervisor.
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The seventh, to names that signify nothing, but are taken up and learned by rote from the Schools, as hypostatical, transubstantiate, consubstantiate, eternal-now, and the like canting of Schoolmen.
Leviathan
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Demand for microgeneration had become so great that the funding was being taken up within hours of becoming available.
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Her mother still holds down her job and has taken up t'ai chi to get involved in sporty things again.
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Now when a conversation like this starts in the post office it tend to be taken up by virtually everyone in the Dale.
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Perhaps one-third of the land under crop was taken up by oats grown to feed a farm's own working horses.
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Here, the primal "O" or "ah" of subapostrophic interjection seems hidden in the very principle of duration, as hypostasized in the appositional "one God, one law," and then taken up in chiastic echo within the effortless tip-toe alliteration of the chiastic
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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The rest of the meeting was taken up by routine matters.
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It has been taken up by other monotheistic religions.
Times, Sunday Times
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What appeared to be a green hologram of some sort of conical machine had taken up residence in the square, and there were crowds of black and red gathered around it.
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Khedive and the Sultan as his suzerain, which is exactly the position taken up by Lord Salisbury in his despatch of September 9, 1898.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
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The recorder then applauds, which is taken up by thise present in the hall.
WN.com - Articles related to Cycling in Britain: five great waterways cycle routes
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Diderot came to resent the burden which had taken up too much of his life, the more so as mentality had not evolved for the better as much as he had hoped.
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Part of the screen was taken up by a banner ad for TotalNews sponsor NewsPage, a personalized Internet news service.
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This was an idea enthusiastically taken up by the Fabians in the early part of the twentieth century.
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In fact, the bulk of the book is taken up with criticizing other works.
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She's very taken up with voluntary work at the moment.
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Every available area is taken up by paintings of all descriptions and all styles.
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Focusing on annual ryegrass, red clover, and Bermuda grass, they've found that over half of all the animal waste nutrients taken up by forage plants concentrates in their stems or runners.
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The “blue socialist” or “arts and crafts” tradition kicked off by people like William Cobbett, John Ruskin, Carlyle and William Morris and later taken up and radicalized in a leftwardly way by the Guild Socialists and the Christian Socialists.
Open thread on: localism, decentralism, anarchism, thick conceptions of libertarianism, and the U.S. Constitution
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Yet more had taken up the attitude of guards, were holding the officers ' discarded clubs in stances of aggression.
THE SCAR
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I prefer manufactured systemic pesticides which are taken up in the plant sap and kill from the inside over a period of weeks.
The Sun
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At current rates of expansion, a huge proportion of British television schedules will be taken up with such drivel.
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The most common extra taken up by new car owners is having a CD autochanger installed.
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Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf.
Twelfth Night
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When the old surface was taken up it disturbed gas pipes and we had leaks which have been repaired.
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But, indeed, this was a day, a very precious day, considering the time between now and Tuesday, taken up trying to rejigger the staff.
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He's taken up bass fishing and goes out in his boat as early as 5 a.m.
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The population in general seemed unworried by HIV, and offers by western institutions to help with money and know-how were not always taken up.
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Though the extent of destruction of the forest cover all over the world cannot be matched with the efforts undertaken to regenerate green cover, efforts to revive forestlands have been taken up from time to time.
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John ordered him to sit, motioning to the arm of his chair since all of the seats were taken up.
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Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes.
Celtic Mythology
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Our belief is that if you work, if you sweat and deliver a service, you're entitled to have your legal rights protected, and that includes payment for your work," said Daniel Gross, executive director of Brandworkers International, a not-for-profit organization that advocates workers 'rights and has taken up the cause along with the Industrial Workers of the World union.
Industrial Workers of the World - One Big Union!
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Then the remark is taken up, carried a few miles, a theory is propounded and someone loses a reputation.
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As early as the 1930s Veblen expressed pride in the enormous strides the country had taken up to that time.
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When these three charges are taken up, there is some hesitation as to the next step: a bordure gules bezanty is used, then a bordure engrailed.
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He's taken up freight delivery now that he has left the Army to devote his efforts to finding the gun runner.
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The cattery was a rectangular room taken up by big knee-high stone tables.
The Dreaming Void
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The chick is used for the primary relations of the systems to one another; and this is followed by the study of pig embryos, where each system is taken up separately and the organology and histogenesis of its parts are studied.
University of Virginia Record
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At Cambridge he had taken up gliding and was a keen glider for many years thereafter.
Times, Sunday Times
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All our weekends have been taken up since Christmas doing orientation and training throughout Ireland.
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The intake of air can be minimised by cutting when the transpiration of the plant is low and both stem and bloom are turgid, that is the cells are full of water and stretched to their fullest limit so that stem and bloom are stiff and solid, and by plunging the cut stems straight away into water, preferably warm water as this tends to be taken up more quickly and thus breaks any air lock.
Article Source
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Top singers He's a gifted songwriter whose tunes have been taken up by some of the country's top folk singers.
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The proportion taken up by the thyroid gland depends on its activity but is usually about half.
The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
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Kharaharapriya was thereafter taken up for a condensed elaboration that made a quick detour of the scale and was succeeded by "Senthil Andavan" in rupaka tala, augmented with a beautifully contoured neraval and fluent kalpana swaras.
The Hindu - Front Page
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When he appeared in Cork in 1491 he was taken up by a number of people who wished to embarrass Henry, including the earls of Kildare and Desmond, Charles VIII of France, and Margaret, dowager duchess of Burgundy.
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We come across bright ideas in books, like over-length lines passed through pulleys under floats and the excess taken up by counter-balancing weights.
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R. A., and other gentlemen and ladies of the first rank in the world of culture have taken up the cause, and expressed themselves in a handsome magazine entitled Aglaia, of which the press speaks in the highest terms.
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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A Lloyd's signal station was to occupy the top storey, but the offer was not taken up.
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Their work was taken up with boring and blasting rock with gelignite.
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The vocalise extends through all four sections, to be taken up by the entire Kremerata Baltica (with crunching organ chords!) in the finale.
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It has been taken up and developed in America until it has reached a climax of splendor and, if we may say so, inappropriateness, that is characteristic of the following of foreign fashions in this country.
Manners and Social Usages
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The crucifixion is the point of concentrated intensity which above all realizes what is most distinctive about Christian theology of salvation, and it will be taken up in the next section.
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Females, Byers found, expend huge efforts bullying other pronghorns, and much of their time is taken up jostling each other for the choicest napping spots.
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But up to 40 percent of downtown spaces are taken up all day by cars with disabled placards.
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The firm was disappointed in both the number of stalls taken up and the market's popularity.
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Written and verbal invitations to community representatives to dialogue with the company have not been taken up.
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Whereupon in floods of tears, the Misses Redwood made for me, and insisted on being taken up one on each knee and "cosseted" because of what the big ugly boy had done.
Tom, Dick and Harry
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Hann claims he has given up alcohol in recent months and taken up other sporting pursuits such as tennis and fishing.
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In recent months – ever since he gave up his part-time job at the behavioural primatology lab – Sean has taken up embroidery and begun producing large quantities of preserves.
Tim Dowling: A writer wronged
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However, diethyl phthalate will probably be rapidly decomposed by soil bacteria, so that little will be taken up into plants.
Public Health Statement for Diethyl Phthalate
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Both of them, not known to shirk work, have taken upon themselves the onerous task of touring Europe to market Kerala.
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When taken up by obstacles, beta particles produce a more penetrative secondary radiation known as bremsstrahlung.
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From digging rainwater pits to cleaning of ponds, the local bodies in Ernakulam district have taken up water conservation programmes in a big way.
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In the time since he had left his native Ballyredmond and taken up his abode in Rathvilly he had spent a period of time in Courtown, Co. Wexford.
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The idea of desertion is taken up again in the comic version of the television show in Firefly: Those Left Behind.
Book Review: The Stars My Destination | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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By taking his stand upon the Bible and preaching thence, the preacher utters the prayer, and expresses the faith, that the thin, shallow trickle of his own words will be taken up into the living Word of him, concerning whom it was said that his voice was "as the sound of many waters.
Archive 2006-10-01
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The Pentagon was taken up with the relief effort after the Japanese tsunami.
Times, Sunday Times
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The next hour was taken up with neighbour disputes and problems of anti-social behaviour.
The Sun
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The Ministry inspector's recommendation for a porter's lodge was taken up and went out to tender.
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Even the former stars of soupy boy bands have taken up riffing.
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Also, there is no evidence that any of the oil or dispersant components are being taken up by smaller organisms, and then built up in concentrations in larger organisms - a process called bioaccumulation, Guidry said.
2theadvocate.com Latest News
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“When the Son-of-the-Snake,” inquired Birnier, who had learned as much of the hagiocracy as Mungongo knew, “hath taken up the Burden, wilt thou then drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the country?”
Witch-Doctors
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On Friday, BCC officials, and industry biggies, surveyed the 19 roads to be taken up for upgradation under the short-term plan.
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At length the matter was taken up seriously, and the editors explained that Mr. Hamilton, on succeeding his brother-in-law, had kept up the old title; so that Robert-Houdin was a term equally applicable to the performer and to the style of performance.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
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Next year my expert knowledge of haute couture and female form should be taken up.
The Sun
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Teachers complain that more of their time is taken up with administration than with teaching.
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To gain entry, a virus binds to receptors on the surface of the host cell, and is taken up into a vesicle, or sphere, inside the cell.
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An 8 ply acrylic wool wick is placed in the soil mixture and through the bottom into a container (like a margarine container) with a weak solution which is then taken up by the plant as required.
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Later, the chorus was taken up by elephants trumpeting as they came down to drink.
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Pedestrians are endangered as they must walk along busy roads because sidewalks are taken up with vendors and their carts.
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Then the light which appeared from heaven was taken up from their eyes, and foreshowed the ascension of the saint unto heaven.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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To stop the slaughter, a struggle had to be taken up against the warmongers in control, on both sides.
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The major programmes taken up are making aids and appliances such as callipers, walking aids, belts and braces, artificial limbs and splints.
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His mind was wholly taken up with the question.
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Where the causeway swept up from the street to the gate of the castle, the beggars who followed the king's camp had taken up new stations, hopeful and expectant, for the king's justiciar, Bishop Robert of Salisbury, had arrived to join his master, and brought a train of wealthy and important clerics with him.
One Corpse Too Many
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Disc two is taken up entirely by the film's storyboards, synched to your choice of the English or Japanese soundtracks.
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This was taken up by archaeologists during the 1960s, but under the glare of the mature processual archaeology of the 1970s and 1980s appeared rather simplistic.
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The melanin is eventually discharged from melanocytes and taken up by keratinocytes.
Real Sun Tan Without the Danger | Impact Lab
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When you open it, you discover that half the space in the box is taken up with a massive wad of cardboard.
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The largest part of the composition is taken up by the siding of a house, which is painted plainly, geometrically, in turquoise.
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Another party, possessing the equally euphonical name of "Old Hunkers," are thus described: -- "Standing midway between this wing of the Democracy and the Whig party, is that portion who have taken upon themselves the comfortable title of 'Old Hunkers. '
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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Carotenoids are taken up from blood circulation by rhamphothecal keratinocytes in the bill, accumulated in lipoid droplets, and distributed diffusely through the horny, keratinized beak tissue.
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We come across bright ideas in books, like over-length lines passed through pulleys under floats and the excess taken up by counter-balancing weights.
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In many patents there is double the quantity of land expressed in the patent, whereby some hundred thousand acres of land are taken up but not planted, which drives away the inhabitants and servants brought up only to planting to seek their fortunes in Carolina and other places, which depopulates the country and prevents the making of many thousand hogsheads of tobacco, to the great diminution of the revenue.
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
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The seventh to names that signify nothing, but are taken up and learned by rote from the schools, as hypostatical, transubstantiate, consubstantiate, eternal-now, and the like canting of schoolmen.
Chapter V. Of Reason and Science
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Neither the exchanges nor brokerage houses have taken up Levitt's challenge.
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He had arrived on Malta in June 1942 as a 21-year-old aboard the fast minelayer HMS Welshman, having taken up a commission in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
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In her spare time she has taken up crochet and ceramics, while finalising plans for her latest business ventures and the return of St Martha.
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Maybe if some private companies paid a decent wage, some of those undoable jobs would be taken up.
The Sun
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Firstly, there is more space taken up by the favourites on screen, enabling a longer list of favourites without scrolling.
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Its overture is taken up with the analogy between the king of the nation and the father of the nuclear family that is beginning to supersede the extended family of earlier centuries.
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This summons to free enquiry, untrammelled by customary beliefs, was taken up by the Greek philosophers, and especially by Socrates.
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Only after the wild growth was removed, the chemical treatment could be taken up.
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However, small areas of low emission could be found in the cytoplasm, showing that the compound was taken up by the cells, probably by pinocytosis.
