Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 2 | Eight years ago , the council gave Burton Property Trust permission to build a multi-storey car park as part of the Cornmill but it has not taken up the option . |
| 3 | The export market has not taken up the slack , so redundancies are coming thick and fast . |
| 4 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 5 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 7 | He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour . |
| 8 | The union has also taken up the case of 50 workers who were fired for joining the union . |
| 9 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 10 | Deciding now to take up the practice of law again , Herbert thought that the best opening would be to build up a country practice . |
| 11 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 12 | Eventually , the polyps bud in a different way and produce miniature medusae which detach themselves and wriggle away to take up the swimming life once more . |
| 13 | ‘ But it is not really so very difficult , ’ said Snodgrass , after he was hoisted into the saddle and discovered how to take up the reins . |
| 14 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 15 | However , he decided instead to take up the post he had been offered of Captain and Governor of the Isle of Wight . |
| 16 | Miss Kyte chose not to take up the challenge . |
| 17 | Third , when the provincial gentry still did not take up the cause of reform with alacrity the tsar bypassed them by appointing a majority of keen reformers to the Editing Commissions . |
| 18 | He did not take up the point . |
| 19 | Only 600 schools did not take up the offer of half-price computers . |
| 20 | Before yesterday 's hearing Mr McTear , gasping for breath , said his goal was to ensure youngsters did not take up the habit and go through his ordeal . |
| 21 | er How many people do actually take up the offer and , and have flu vaccines nowadays ? |
| 22 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 23 | I do not envisage a long-lasting solution to the problem of Yugoslavia that does not take up the issue of minority rights and seek to entrench them , perhaps by international action . |
| 24 | If the profession does not take up the challenge others will , and an opportunity will have been missed . |
| 25 | To use the ‘ negotiation ’ metaphor , we can say that speaker M offers elements in her personal topic ( in her second contribution ) as possible elements to be included in the conversational business , but speaker L does not take up the offer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So far — perhaps because of difficulty in finding a sufficiently masochistic emissary — the Americans have not taken up the suggestion . |
| 30 | 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 . |