Example sentences of "[prep] take up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after taking up his post , he addressed a Parliamentary Labour Party fringe meeting on Northern Ireland at the 1987 conference in Brighton . |
| 2 | Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music . |
| 3 | After taking up the post , the professor will become eligible for consideration , in reviews which will take place from time to time , for one of a small number of additional awards which may be made in recognition of outstanding academic distinction and/or contribution to the academic work of the University ( e.g. in leadership in , or in the development of , some field of study ) . |
| 4 | On one side were the Marxist commandantes , puppets of a giant colonizing power , in their camouflage fatigues and their designer sunglasses , carrying foreign ideology like a loathsome bacillus ; on the other the indigenous peasants , barefoot , in straw hats , driven to the point of taking up arms . |
| 5 | He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated . |
| 6 | Grayson played soccer for Parklands High School before going on to Preston College where he played a little rugby in 1989 but never thought of taking up the game . |
| 7 | Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 . |
| 8 | Within 18 months of taking up the sport , she was timed at 11.20 and 22.74 for the sprints , won medals in the Pan American Games and came fifth in the World Cup . |
| 9 | It would be a bit like choosing to go and spend all Sunday afternoon discussing skin diseases with your 75-year-old deaf aunty in Coatbridge , instead of taking up your boyfriend 's offer of a day in bed at an expensive country house hotel , drinking champagne while he gives you a bit of a seeing to . |
| 10 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 11 | These costs comprise not simply membership dues but also such factors as the possibility of employer hostility and retaliation ( in the form of job loss or victimisation ) as a result of taking up membership . |
| 12 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 13 | He was now much more friendly and jaunty — " I am thinking of taking up dancing lessons again , " he told a reporter from the Daily Express , " as I have not danced at all for some years " . |
| 14 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 15 | The cards can be stored alphabetically , and children can use them instead of taking up the teacher 's time . |
| 16 | My object in this chapter has been to provide a transition between ( i ) the analysis of economic class relations , in the sense of possession of and separation from the means of production , and the strategic opportunities for the socialist project connected with the current forms of these relations , and ( ii ) the politics of taking up these opportunities in modern Britain . |
| 17 | After abandoning the idea of taking up medicine , Darwin moved to Cambridge in order to obtain the BA degree needed if he was to become an Anglican clergyman . |
| 18 | He did not mention that he was not thinking of taking up his invitation to the United States . |
| 19 | In the first situation , the ideal , as suggested at the end of the previous section , is to produce a valuation of the chance of taking up a strategic option . |
| 20 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 21 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 22 | And mixed farming instead of taking up his hedges and going for wheat or sugar beet like the rest of them . ’ |
| 23 | ( As migrants were already on courses they may be less likely to be thinking of taking up another one at present . ) |
| 24 | ‘ But in all seriousness , we understand from the clerks that Quatt is dissatisfied with his reception here — as well he might be ! — and has the intention of taking up a post as archdeacon somewhere in Worcestershire , where he was living before . |
| 25 | I understood there was talk of taking up where you 'd both left off , ’ she reminded him . |
| 26 | Will he urge on the Government of India the importance of allowing independent observers and visitors into that region , and of taking up Pakistan 's offer that independent observers should be stationed along the line of control , to deal with the movement of people and the problem of terrorism , as well as the human rights issue ? |
| 27 | I pay tribute to people who have advised parents and children of the dangers of taking up smoking . |
| 28 | The moment was exciting and he wanted to prolong it — to think of himself as capable of taking up such an offer — though he knew that in the end he would have to decline it . |
| 29 | In the third year of the History of Art honours course students have the option of taking up a short work placement in a museum , art gallery or auction house . |
| 30 | Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’ |