Example sentences of "[verb] take up the [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In addition to the Audit Commission and the CBI , Business in the Community ( BIC ) has taken up the theme of ‘ partnership ’ . |
| 10 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Why do people on holiday suddenly start taking up the kind of violent exercise they would n't even contemplate normally ? ’ sighed Jim . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were drawn up by Lamar Alexander , who on March 18 had taken up the post of Education Secretary following the December 1990 resignation of Lauro Cavazos [ see p. 37911 ] . |
| 18 | Some alterations to the school premises took place in 1883 , when the yard was extended to take up the site of an old lodging house . |
| 19 | Many elite writers such as Burnham and Weblen have taken up the issue of technological advance and argued that the increasing division of labour and sophistication of the practical instruments of government are associated not with greater participation by the newly enfranchised masses but with concentration of political power in the hands of those who control the technological resources . |
| 20 | Since you have taken up the Mastership of Jesus College , what have you done to encourage this , especially young contemporary British artists ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 23 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |
| 24 | This time Vidor wanted to take up the notion of co-operatives which he had read about in Reader 's Digest . |