Example sentences of "[verb] take up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birkenhead MP Frank Field has taken up the fight of Tranmere residents who feared they were in danger of becoming a ‘ forgotten area . ’ |
| 2 | Tony Bell has taken up the reigns of captaincy at Middlesbrough once more . |
| 3 | It has taken up the cause of a South Ronaldsay mother , seven of whose children have been in care since November 1990 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ken Hollands has taken up the appointment of North Western Area Director from David MacInnes . |
| 6 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 7 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In addition to the Audit Commission and the CBI , Business in the Community ( BIC ) has taken up the theme of ‘ partnership ’ . |
| 11 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 12 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
| 13 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 14 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |
| 15 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 16 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 17 | Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ? |
| 18 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 19 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 20 | ‘ We put patriotism and self-sacrifice into them , and there is no doubt that after they have learnt a certain amount of that , ’ he explained as he outlined his strategy to the National Defence Association , ‘ they will feel bound to take up the defence in one form or another , should it be necessary , when the time comes . ’ |
| 21 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 22 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 23 | Why do people on holiday suddenly start taking up the kind of violent exercise they would n't even contemplate normally ? ’ sighed Jim . |
| 24 | If the Committee wishes to take up the offer of a presentation of the plan perhaps Bob Allan could advise me of your meeting dates in January and February . |
| 25 | If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know : |
| 26 | Customers may not want to take up the credit on offer . |
| 27 | It has often been asked why Britain , whose reputation stood high in Europe after 1940 and which was the Continent 's wealthiest state in 1945 , failed to take up the leadership of European unity . |
| 28 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |