Example sentences of "[vb pp] to take up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 2 | It is never expected to take up demands or make a real effort to change conditions . |
| 3 | The decision was crucial to those Britons who had now resolved to take up arms against Rome if necessary , but for the Druids it was now simply a matter of life or death . |
| 4 | As a medical student at Newcastle University in the 1950s Neubauer was inspired to take up psychiatry by Prof Martin Roth . |
| 5 | As a student at Cambridge he played squash for the University and three years ago he was set to take up stock car racing . |
| 6 | Proudly , they maintained peace with the white men for seventy years , until finally they became forced to take up arms , the reluctant tormentors of the US Army . |
| 7 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if the mesh is too big , small rabbits can squeeze through , take their fill and become unable to squeeze back , and so are forced to take up residence inside . |
| 9 | The Bank Action Group has vowed to take up Mr Stoller 's case . |
| 10 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 11 | GRASSLAND farmers are being advised to take up mat making to increase profits and cut pollution . |