Example sentences of "take up [art] 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 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 .
4 Mr Wright , 42 , who will take up the post in September , is currently finance chief at Wessex regional health authority .
5 DONALD PETRIE ( Clydeside ) will take up the post of Scottish development and administrative officer next month .
6 Avowing his apostasy , he left Dunsden in February 1913 , and , after a short stay with his family , he took up a post as a teacher of English at the Berlitz school in Bordeaux .
7 Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London .
8 He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo .
9 He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge .
10 The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 .
11 In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany .
12 He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 .
13 After joining the bank in 1975 , she moved to Bangor and in 1978 took up a post in London where she worked in a number of West End branches .
14 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 .
15 Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers .
19 Ouseley , who took up the post last week , was Britain 's first black local authority chief executive , appointed in Lambeth three years ago .
20 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 .
21 Having trained as a photo-process engraver , he took up the post of demonstrator in a firm in Gothenburg , Sweden , in 1907 .
22 However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration .
23 , 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal .
28 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 .
29 The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties .
30 In July , last year , he took up the post of environmental adviser .
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