Example sentences of "[noun pl] take up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 2 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 3 | As the age-structure changed older spectators tended to leave the terraces to take up the increasing amount of seated accommodation ; the ‘ ends ’ were left to ‘ the lads ’ . |
| 4 | The idea is the brainchild of CEWTEC , the training and enterprise council for Chester , Ellesmere Port and Wirral which is now seeking 15 local firms to take up the cut-price offer . |
| 5 | Parental attitude to smoking and peer influence are factors which affect both boys and girls taking up the smoking habit . |
| 6 | The young mothers take up the local authorities ' slack stock . |
| 7 | You will need to attach three Daily Mirror tokens to take up the special offer . |
| 8 | You will need three separately numbered tokens to take up the special offer at Butlin 's Holiday Worlds . |
| 9 | On Jan. 31 , the government promised safe passage to Sikh militants taking up the Prime Minister 's offer of peace talks . |
| 10 | With this method some structures take on a purple coloration while others take up the red counter-stain . |
| 11 | However , according to Dave Ball — who was European Marketing Director for Artisoft at the time but has now switched camps to take up the same role at Performance — the deal fell through at the end of last year . |