Example sentences of "take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 32 | In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals . |
| 33 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 34 | Interruptions will take up time . |
| 35 | Well , at that point we 've got to three o'clock and the end of the term , erm I 'll take up Totem and Taboo , and its more forward lis looking aspects in the first lecture of er , next term , and I wish you all a happy Christmas , and new year , and hope you have a good , a good vacation and look forward to seeing you here again , the first Thursday of next term . |
| 36 | Graduates with a specialism in Tourism and Leisure may take up employment in the management of tourism ventures , or in managing tourist flows . |
| 37 | Any EC national may now reside in any member state to seek or take up employment , accompanied by his family ( Directive 68/360/EC ) , establish firms or provide services ( 73/148 ) and remain in that territory after having been employed in that State ( 70/1251 , 72/194 ) . |
| 38 | The crux of the argument — the impetus of the Girls into Science and Technology ( GIST ) , Women into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) and INSIGHT schemes — is that more girls must take up science subjects ; girls must do as well as boys . |
| 39 | On the other hand , wallmounted fittings do n't take up table space , have no trailing flex and can be properly directed to your reading material . |
| 40 | ‘ You could take up ballet . ’ |
| 41 | Yeah well it well it 'd take up disk space unnecessarily |
| 42 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 43 | There 's nothing worse than people just spitting out albums ; you get all these mediocre albums that do nothing but take up shelf space . |
| 44 | Some essential and irreplaceable tissues , like the brain , kidney tubules , intestinal mucosa and red blood corpuscles , can take up glucose in the absence of insulin , which other tissues , notably muscles which are normally the largest consumers of glucose , need its presence . |
| 45 | Her friendship with President George Bush is reflected in her interest in what takes place on Capitol Hill , and her wonderful skill at public speaking suggests that she might take up politics . |
| 46 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , responding to increasing domestic and international pressure , was reportedly instrumental in compelling Ramon Aguirre Velázquez , a PRI hardliner who had officially won 55 per cent of the vote in Guanajuato , to make the unprecedented announcement on Aug. 29 that he would not take up office as state governor . |
| 47 | His replacement will probably not take up office until 1 September 193 . |
| 48 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 49 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |
| 50 | On the morrow or soon after , as our uncle of Gloucester told me , he will take up residence in the Tower . ’ |
| 51 | It is not very clever to spray and fight off enemies from the front door , while letting them take up residence outside a wide open back door . |
| 52 | And the inconvenience will be only slight , he can always take up residence at his college again until their time 's up . ’ |
| 53 | Will you take up residence in France ? ’ |
| 54 | We shall take up residence in autumn , not later , for I am to have another child close to Christmas , I believe . |
| 55 | Your old ma might take up shoplifting . |
| 56 | In rare moments of leisure he liked to potter around the garden , and always said he would take up farming when he retired . |
| 57 | It will take up room on the stairs , so remember that the space left for other people using the stairs will be less . |
| 58 | " Why did you take up forestry ? " she asked him . |
| 59 | The male then took up guard , fanning the eggs constantly with his large pectorals and turning upside down to fan them as well . |
| 60 | Fluid took up air space … you never saw anyone with emphysema run upstairs . |