Example sentences of "taken up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern . |
| 2 | Ken Hollands has taken up the appointment of North Western Area Director from David MacInnes . |
| 3 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 4 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 5 | He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour . |
| 6 | So far nobody has taken up the suggestion that since goalkeepers have become bigger , scoring would be made easier if the goals themselves were enlarged . |
| 7 | More than 4,500 Ford employees have taken up the company 's new education scheme to encourage them to learn a foreign language . |
| 8 | The export market has not taken up the slack , so redundancies are coming thick and fast . |
| 9 | These , with certain trace elements , are taken up the woody fibres and much of the water evaporates at the leaf surfaces , while photosynthesis takes place . |
| 10 | The NUS and several other student unions have also taken up the campaign and it is hoped that the campaign will extend beyond the student movement to trade unions and women 's groups . |
| 11 | In addition to the Audit Commission and the CBI , Business in the Community ( BIC ) has taken up the theme of ‘ partnership ’ . |
| 12 | Meanwhile New Scientist understands that ministers have not taken up the offer of the Greenfield committee to hold further meetings to consider the issues of generic drugs further . |
| 13 | So far a quarter of Britain 's 27 000 schools for the under-11s have taken up the offer of cut-price computers and training material . |
| 14 | When these ideas are taken up the employees receive bonuses of one kind or another . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 16 | The song is , it appears , about the lack of sex education in schools , a subject which we at Public NME feel is indeed worthy of airing , and what a shame more of our nation 's pop stars have n't taken up the musical cudgel , so to speak . |
| 17 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 18 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 19 | And ethical investors in the City have taken up the SAS cause — some actually turning up to the SAS summer ball and joining in the dancing to Dezzman Devan 's reggae band and London funksters Push . |
| 20 | I could n't bring myself to believe it , and after I had visited Cooper in Maidstone Prison and McMahon in Long Lartin Prison and spoken to their two solicitors , Gareth Peirce for Cooper and Wendy Mantle for McMahon , as well as to Tom Sargant , the secretary of JUSTICE , who had also taken up the case , I was convinced that they were as innocent of the Luton murder as I was . |
| 21 | Now another siren had taken up the warning . |
| 22 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 23 | In his last year as President , Woodward is desperately keen to give Essex their first senior national title and has taken up the role of joint-manager to that end . |
| 24 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 25 | Many subsequent critics have taken up the point made by radical blacks at the time that this was a romantic and pastoral view of the rural South , but several early critics hailed the film as a brilliantly realistic depiction of a whole section of American society . |
| 26 | So far — perhaps because of difficulty in finding a sufficiently masochistic emissary — the Americans have not taken up the suggestion . |
| 27 | USL has taken up the baton of Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format technology from OSF , and has signed with the UK 's Defence Research Agency — the originator of the ANDF technology — to commercialise it for release with SVR4.2 . |
| 28 | East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns . |
| 29 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 30 | Since you have taken up the Mastership of Jesus College , what have you done to encourage this , especially young contemporary British artists ? |