Example sentences of "[noun] take up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |
| 2 | Some health boards have experienced trouble finding suitable numbers of business people to take up the available seats , even after reducing the size of boards from 18 to 12 . |
| 3 | The young mothers take up the local authorities ' slack stock . |
| 4 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 5 | The defeatists felt that the power of the torturers was too great to try to combat ; the purists were too busy discussing semantics to take up the real problems ; the perfectionists thought that the data on human rights was too imprecise to be used for high quality research ; the paradigm thinkers believed that massive political and social changes would be necessary before torture could be stopped ; many other concerned persons were involved in other cases , such as environment , ecology , animal rights , etc . |