Example sentences of "[verb] to take up the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah I think it just depends whether the local group want to take up the option or not . |
| 2 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |
| 6 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 7 | Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation . |
| 8 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 9 | Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left . |
| 10 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 11 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 12 | But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer . |
| 13 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 14 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 15 | A member of the BPR , she had just entered the state university , the UES , to Study journalism when she was asked whether she would like to take up the work : |
| 16 | Will he , if it remains voluntary , reassure farmers who would like to take up the scheme that the payments will not be reduced during the period for which they take it up — that is , for five or even 10 years ? |
| 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 | People like you are needed to take up the challenge . |
| 19 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | And if you have only just been inspired to take up the sport , maybe on the back of the Redford film A River Runs Through It , the club will allow a small number of beginners . |
| 24 | The only comforting thing about this was that , although they were well placed to take over my brain , they had , so far at any rate , declined to take up the offer . |
| 25 | Either the compromises begin and records become more accessible , or the band leaves the label , usually by virtue of being dropped or , in contract parlance , the record company failing to take up the next year 's option . |
| 26 | But if the FA decide to take up the matter , I believe Arsenal will not take action , because they do not want to see Wright punished twice . |
| 27 | One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth . |
| 28 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 29 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 30 | 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 . |