Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shrewsbury and Borough Council have taken up the flagpole , have decided to spend a considerable amount of money on providing a visitor attraction in those buildings , around those buildings . |
| 2 | Yeah I think it just depends whether the local group want to take up the option or not . |
| 3 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 4 | And ethical investors in the City have taken up the SAS cause — some actually turning up to the SAS summer ball and joining in the dancing to Dezzman Devan 's reggae band and London funksters Push . |
| 5 | Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford . |