Example sentences of "[vb base] take up the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 2 | Why do people on holiday suddenly start taking up the kind of violent exercise they would n't even contemplate normally ? ’ sighed Jim . |
| 3 | ‘ The major chains have taken up the promotion in a big way , but so have many independents , which is terrific because the promotion was n't designed just for the chains ; we wanted everyone to get involved . ’ |
| 4 | Many elite writers such as Burnham and Weblen have taken up the issue of technological advance and argued that the increasing division of labour and sophistication of the practical instruments of government are associated not with greater participation by the newly enfranchised masses but with concentration of political power in the hands of those who control the technological resources . |
| 5 | Since you have taken up the Mastership of Jesus College , what have you done to encourage this , especially young contemporary British artists ? |
| 6 | So far a quarter of Britain 's 27 000 schools for the under-11s have taken up the offer of cut-price computers and training material . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Far from feeling second best , the Mexicans have taken up the challenge with vigour : ‘ We aim to be a cultural invasion of Frankfurt and the rest of Germany ’ , said the Mexican commissioner , Eugenia Meyer . |
| 9 | Localisation of protein alone may identify not only producing cells , but also target cells and cells which have taken up the protein by endocytosis . |