Example sentences of "taken up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These avenues have not only taken up a lot of the time and energy of the present generation of activists but they have also reduced the reliance on the politics of the street demonstration by presenting alternative means of expression and action . |
| 2 | Howell has taken up a job in Aberdeen and feels he may no longer be able to spare the time to travel back to Edinburgh each weekend . |
| 3 | One of Peter Freygood 's friends in Regina was a chap called Geoffrey Byrnes who had taken up a literary job in Chicago in 1935 . |
| 4 | Stuart and Alice will be making their home in Reigate where Stuart had taken up a post at St. Mary 's . |
| 5 | After years of study he had qualified in Mining Engineering and had taken up a post as a college lecturer on mining . |
| 6 | Wait until a ferret fitted with a transmitter has taken up a fixed position down a burrow . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hipper , steaming northward parallel to Beatty , again sighted his enemy to the west at about 17.40 ; he immediately turned east but was then bombarded by Hood , who had inadvertently taken up a wrong station . |
| 9 | There was no sign of Benny , but Ace assumed that the Professor had taken up a position on the other side of the stanchion . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 11 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 12 | To reach this point Johnson has taken up a third of his Journey to the Western Islands , and one can now sense the lift of excitement in him , a man about to broach the exotic . |
| 13 | During the subsequent exploration of New Zealand and Australia , Green was , in Cook 's words , ‘ indefatigable in making and calculating these observations [ for latitude and longitude ] which otherwise must have taken up a great deal of my time … |
| 14 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 15 | He retired from the sea at the age of 36 , having taken up a career with the brush . |
| 16 | Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale . |
| 17 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 18 | Former Magnus manager Rick Haythornthwaite has taken up a new role in Venezuela , and is set on moving BP centre stage . |
| 19 | Hugh McGill and Madeline Blakely have transferred to other posts within Hanover House and Anne Davidson has taken up a post of Head of Department of Service Industries at West Lothian College of Further Education . |
| 20 | Helen Ayles FHCIMA has taken up a three year contract with the Hong Kong Hospital Authority as chief project manager , environmental and domestic services . |
| 21 | ‘ You know very well that a lady can not accept pecuniary assistance from a gentleman without being thought to have taken up a carte blanche . ’ |
| 22 | Not only have the Government disregarded the electricity supply industry 's disdain for that achievement , but they have sat idly by and watched collieries close which , in the past five years , have taken up a large part of that sum of money about which the Minister boasted just a moment ago . |
| 23 | ‘ The idea was that he would be taken up a couple of hundred feet , ’ said Gavin Birkett . |
| 24 | Graduates in German have taken up a wide range of jobs in recent years , in advertising , journalism , local government , tourism , banking , insurance , hospital administration , librarianship , the Civil Service , broadcasting , and in industry and commerce , in Britain and abroad , as well as in teaching . |
| 25 | Dr Nils Rosdahl , former director of public health in Denmark , has taken up a WHO assignment as adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in former Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | Helen Tattersfield ( Dr Lenzi ) has taken up a G.P. partnership in Downham , Kent . |
| 27 | One of Britain 's greatest athletes has taken up a new sporting challenge . |
| 28 | A group of children have taken up a campaign for a footpath outside their school . |
| 29 | Some hav taken up de gun |
| 30 | The affair , he believes , is evidence of a deep-seated political campaign against the police , of which the most recent evidence is the fact that Balwinder Gill , late of the SMG , has now taken up an appointment as a race officer with Hounslow council . |