Example sentences of "[noun sg] to take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 2 | Priest to take up post at Vatican |
| 3 | Back in London , deserting his native Liverpool which he compared unfavourably to Manchester , he was advised by William Leach at the British Museum to take up lithography . |
| 4 | This species is the main alternative to spruce in much of the Uplands but has a much reduced capacity to take up sulphur compounds than any forest when assessed on the basis of weight per unit area . |
| 5 | But seneschals still itinerated when they arrived in the duchy to take up office — receiving oaths from the king-duke 's Gascon subjects and swearing a reciprocal oath to them . |
| 6 | Her incentive to take up painting came after she read an article in the Sunday Telegraph about Brigitte Bardot , and , in particular , a poem titled ‘ Complaint of an abandoned dog ’ . |
| 7 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 8 | ‘ In his last will and testament , the celebrated philosopher , author of Pythagorean Mysticism and the Ninfanian School , left his entire estate , the noble house at Punta del Giorno , the farms and their sheep folds in the hills at Crotone , Metaponto and Matera , the vineyards that fringe the banks of the Sauro gorge , to none other than himself , when he should return in his next incarnation to take up residence on his territories again . |
| 9 | Arrangements were made for the deceased to take up residence in a residential home for the elderly known as Samuel Saye House , owned and managed by a Mr. and Mrs. Tinker . |
| 10 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 11 | If you intend to move to a new area to take up employment it is wise to do some homework on local factors affecting recruitment . |
| 12 | Just three of the qualities I possess that will be invaluable when I get the inevitable call to take up Football League management . |
| 13 | And a new exhibition of water colours at Oxford 's Old Fire Station , but what inspired the artist to take up painting ? |
| 14 | This would reduce the ability of the living world to take up carbon dioxide . |
| 15 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 16 | She put an end to the nuns ’ little treats and tricks , whilst at the same time allowing a whore to take up residence there . |
| 17 | When people move house to take up residence in a new community they are likely to be more open to change in other areas of their life . |