Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the post " in BNC.
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1 | Secrett has refused to comment on his plans until he takes up the post . |
2 | Dr. Peter Williamson , who takes up the post at the beginning of April , spends two days in the town and meets the Leukaemia Unit Fund committee on Wednesday evening . |
3 | Finally , interviewers are often hesitant to broach the question of one partner wishing to resign , so at interview we raise the issue and offer reassurance that should it ever occur the remaining partner would either also resign or take on the post full time . |
4 | The appointment fulfilled a requirement of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaties that a Panamanian should take over the post from a US citizen at the beginning of 1990 . |
5 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
6 | Mr Wright , 42 , who will take up the post in September , is currently finance chief at Wessex regional health authority . |
7 | DONALD PETRIE ( Clydeside ) will take up the post of Scottish development and administrative officer next month . |
8 | Lee remained secretary-general of the ruling People 's Action Party ( PAP ) , which he had founded , and also took on the post of Senior Minister in the new Cabinet . |
9 | On Nov. 6 , he took on the post of Prime Minister , thus becoming responsible for the Interior , Defence , and Russian KGB . |
10 | Ware took over the post of Treasury Solicitor at a difficult time . |
11 | The younger Kim , designated heir since the sixth party congress in 1980 , recently took over the post of supreme commander of the armed forces from his father . |
12 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
13 | A niece took over the post office when she married , and it was moved to the present premises . |
14 | For what it 's worth my own advice would be that we I erm as you remember , increased the rental for the er coffee rooms from four thousand pounds when I er took over the post of chief executive and er to seven thousand five hundred in July eighty nine and we 've increased that yearly to a sum of twenty one thousand one hundred and fifty pounds per annum er from the first of August nineteen ninety one . |
15 | The new Resident Representative in the USA , Juan Babauta , a Republican , took over the post from a Democrat , Froilan C. Tenario , a strong nationalist who had stood as a candidate for the governorship . |
16 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
17 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
18 | Dr Mann took up the post of organist and choir master at Beverley at a time when the music at the Minster was at a fairly low ebb . |
19 | Joan accordingly took up the post of companion to the lady Anne and thereafter had no great difficulty in adjusting to a new and privileged life-style . |
20 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
21 | Ouseley , who took up the post last week , was Britain 's first black local authority chief executive , appointed in Lambeth three years ago . |
22 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
23 | Having trained as a photo-process engraver , he took up the post of demonstrator in a firm in Gothenburg , Sweden , in 1907 . |
24 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
25 | , William ( 1730–1803 ) , landscape designer and gardener , whose early life is obscure , took up the post of head gardener to Sir Nathaniel Curzon at Kedleston , Derbyshire , on 8 September 1756 . |
26 | Returning to England , he took up the post of sub-warden of Toynbee Hall , the universities ' settlement in the East End of London , 1920–9 , serving also as a co-opted member of the London County Council education committee , 1925–31 . |
27 | In January 1869 , on the strength of his published work and Ritschl 's glowing reference , he was offered the chair despite his youth and lack of the usually mandatory doctorate and " habilitation " ; he took up the post in April 1869 . |
28 | Abul Ahsan ( a member of the Bangladesh foreign service ) completed his tenure as the first Secretary-General of SAARC at the end of October 1989 ; his successor , K. K. Bhargava ( India ) , took up the post at the Secretariat in Kathmandu , the capital of Nepal . |
29 | Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal . |
30 | Meetings between the military commanders of all three factions in Bosnia at Sarajevo airport on Oct. 23 and Oct. 26 , chaired by the new UNPROFOR commander Philippe Morillon ( who took up the post on Sept. 30 ) , failed to halt the fighting . |