Sentences with phrase «taken up with»

In what other, valuable ways could teachers be spending the time taken up with building «differentiation» into a lesson plan?

Many hours can be taken up with queries and complaints from parents, problems with lost or misplaced instruments, allocating pupils to teachers, monitoring health and safety issues (including Child Protection), replacing equipment and consumables, and so on.

Local universities and colleges have also taken up with the trend.

The rest of the day was taken up with films that had already played at other film festivals and arrived at Fantastic Fest with major buzz.

Most of the story is taken up with the rebel propaganda comapaign orchestrated by Plutarch, filmed on the battle line by the punkish - looking Cressida (Natalie Dormer) and fronted by Katniss.

Tris» proclivity for violence is always satisfying to watch, and although Woodley doesn't seem to have the muscle mass required, most of Divergent was taken up with watching her train to become a killing machine, so it's easier to believe.

The substance of the story is taken up with the heroes piecing together the events of their lost night on the town as they search far and wide for their missing friend.

Her father (Anthony Hopkins) has left her mother (Gemma Jones) and has taken up with a younger woman (Lucy Punch) who boosts his libido while emptying his wallet.

Then she return home to find her father (David Strathairn) has taken up with another woman (Elizabeth Banks).

Russell, out of prison, can't quite accept that his girlfriend (Zoe Saldana) has taken up with the local sheriff (Forest Whitaker).

Most of this is taken up with mediocre and even terrible films, but there's a lot of great ones as well, enough that I think this decade stands up well with the best film decades ever.

Ostensibly the story of five sisters who kill themselves, and even more, of the boys who try to befriend the girls and are mystified by their act for the rest of their lives, the film instead chooses to focus on just one of the girls (played by Kirsten Dunst) and the bulk of the film's middle is taken up with the story of her romance with heartthrob Josh Hartnett.

Ray's wife, Emma (Carla Gugino) has taken up with another fella, extremely rich architect Daniel (Ioan Gruffud), the latter of whom is escorting daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario) to San Francisco.

After all, it's difficult to carry on much dialogue when eighty percent of the runtime is taken up with gunfire.

They simply can't accept that their father has taken up with a woman like Marina.

Though directors Chin and E. Chai Vaserhelyi take breaks to interview the wives, the documentarians want as many of the eighty - nine minutes taken up with close - ups of the climb, and in a feature that could snatch a nomination for cinematography, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk capture the rain and sleet and pour down on the group as though Mother Nature is determined to keep the summit of Meru pristine, untouched by human hands.

She assaults the woman Chester's allegedly taken up with, despite Alexandra's best efforts.

Given that Arabian Nights is mostly about austerity - era Portugal — and that the bulk of Volume 3 is taken up with a documentary about competitive birdsong hobbyists — it's easy to understate how funny it can be.

Her husband, Humpty (Jim Belushi) is an excitable drunk and Ginny has taken up with Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a lifeguard with literary aspirations.

Rather we just watch as his life becomes increasingly taken up with bringing food and provisions to the Jews in hiding, despite considerable personal risk.

Tommy has also lost his girlfriend Theresa (Bracco), who has taken up with Rob and is currently pregnant, although there remains a degree of uncertainty regarding the paternity.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly separated from his wife Ludmilla and has taken up with 24 year old former gymnast Alina Kabaeva.

Your time is being taken up with plenty of worthwhile activities, and your sense of self - worth will undoubtedly improve.

It goes without saying that the majority of your packing will be taken up with your choice of attire.

Fad: «a fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period» (http://dictionary.reference.com).

Three - quarters of the space on your plate should be taken up with vegetables.

Actually, I had a window where I could do it with my baby napping, but it all got taken up with phone calls so I didn't have time.

A fad, however, is a fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time.

The whole second paragraph was taken up with definitions, and so on.

Her days are taken up with occupational therapy, water aerobics and outings with friends.

But it took a while to realize that there were a number of other buildings that didn't react swiftly enough to close their air intakes, so the contaminated dust got taken up with the air handling systems.

In a subject like chemistry, the first year is taken up with taught modules and the remaining time is spent doing research work under the guidance of a supervisor.

A substantial chunk of my day is taken up with e-mail.

The last part of Water that Does Not Wet Hands is taken up with appendixes in which Szydlo translates some of Sendivogius's writings.

Half the book's 600 - odd pages are taken up with biological accounts of the 200 or so families of living birds — each a masterpiece of focused scientific research, condensed natural - history writing and beautiful photos.

Of that total he wants roughly # 12 billion to be made up of welfare cuts, in an effort to halt the ever - increasing proportion of public spending taken up with benefits.

I think Nick deserves it sometimes, given how much of this blog is taken up with idiotic pronouncements from Cox.

Taken up with his ministerial ambition, Purnell was far too neglectful of his constituents in the view of Pendry, who writes: «I do wish him well in his very lucrative current position within the BBC.»

Much of the text is taken up with internal UKIP battles, particularly between Farage and Kilroy - Silk.

However, some challenges such as Under - payment, Omission of names on payroll, Non-payment and Over-payment of some Police Personnel experienced in the Eight (8) State Commands that have been enrolled on the platform of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) in the payment of August and September 2017 Salary have been taken up with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and its being promptly addressed.

Much of frontline policing is taken up with low level anti-social behaviour, which has a big impact on the quality of life of Londoners, but is not always best dealt with by the Met.

Though you've got your time pretty well taken up with the baby, try to give your husband a little extra attention.

Before that, all your time is taken up with trying to feed and catch naps and do all those other things that suck up 24 hours but leave you with no memories and no accomplishments other than staying alive for another day.

So about 45 minutes out of every two hours was taken up with nothing but the feeding process.

I feel like all of my parental brain space is taken up with what I'm dealing with right now.

I like eating and good food, but cooking takes time and creativity, and in the early months of motherhood my imagination was taken up with how to manage to put my baby down long enough to use the bathroom and get dressed.

I know it sounds weird to hear me say that, since so much of my blog is taken up with the idea that we should stop yelling.

We were told: «Clearly this is a an issue to be taken up with Trading Standards and we are grateful that you have done so, and will be interested to see the response you receive.»

Your teen's time may easily get taken up with video games or social media if he's not careful.

Since grades really count in high school, planning for studying is crucial for success, particularly when your teen's time is taken up with extracurricular activities.