Example sentences of "[adj] take up [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The first Advisory Service employees moved in to Westwood in April with the last few taking up residence in June .
2 Students from countries within the European Community are free to take up employment during vacations but unemployment is high in the United Kingdom and there are few jobs vacant .
3 Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky , 77 , the spiritual leader of up to 5,000,000 Ukrainian ( Eastern Rite ) Catholics ( commonly known as Uniates ) , returned on March 30 to take up residence in Lvov in the West Ukraine after 52 years in exile in Rome .
4 Stukeley first took up residence in St. Peter 's Rectory and later in a large house at the top of Barn Hill .
5 Mesic had been due to take up office on May 15 , under the system of rotating leadership , but Serbia , Vojvodina and Bosnia Hercegovina blocked his appointment , thus precipitating a constitutional deadlock .
6 With the housing market still struggling to recover , the Bonners may not be moving in the very near future — but it 's rare for follies to come on the market , especially ones you can live in — so it may not be long before a buyer comes along keen to take up residence in Enoch 's Tower .
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