Example sentences of "his [noun] to take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He stated that he had informed President César Gaviria Trujillo " a long time ago " of his intention to take up a post in the Higher Council for the Administration of Justice .
2 A policyholder who called at Croydon branch recalled an occasion years earlier when he was summoned to appear before the Board of Directors at London Office because he notified the Society of his intention to take up an appointment in Singapore .
3 But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past .
4 In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] .
5 His support for Darwin was not based on his ability to take up a research programme suggested by the theory proposed in the Origin .
6 Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all .
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