Example sentences of "up [art] [adj] post " in BNC.

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1 Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern .
2 The portfolio of Mohamed Ghanouchi was altered from Planning and Finance to Economy and Finance ; Tahar Azaiez took up the new post of Minister of Professional Training and Employment ; Ahmed Khaled became Minister of Culture and Information ; and Ali Chabi was appointed as Secretary of State for Religious Affairs .
3 On Aug. 10 a Supreme Court judge , Giuseppe di Gennaro , 68 , took up the new post of director of the DIA on a provisional basis .
4 This year Ian McCartney took up the new post of Student Enterprise Officer and this addition to the staff has greatly facilitated student enterprise activities .
5 Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places .
6 I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post .
7 Sacco swarmed up the steering-wheel post and wrestled the keys out of the ignition while the rest of the boys poked around in the cab .
8 Mr Reid will not be available to take up the full-time post until next October , although he becomes chairman-designate on January 1 .
9 The Presidium of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 10 appointed Pyotr Paskar as Chairman of the Moldavian Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) in place of Ivan Kalin , who was to take up a diplomatic post .
10 ‘ We were sent to a landing strip on the coast near Bardia to set up a listening post on a wavelength contained in sealed orders .
11 This did , not prevent her from becoming engaged , in 1956 , to Edgar Lintot , who was about to leave Cambridge to take up a pre-registration post at St Michael 's Hospital in Lewisham .
12 Bearing in mind the awful job involved in renewing or replacing the pillar stake , you can see the sense in putting up a concrete post , or at least a concrete spur to which a timber can be bolted .
13 He returned to the Tyne in 1853 to manage a shipyard , leaving the following year to take up a similar post at Robert Hickson 's shipyard in Belfast .
14 PA ( a management consultancy ) asked 145 companies taking part in its 1985 ‘ Annual Fringe Benefits Report ’ to say whether or not they provided assistance when senior executives had to move house to take up a new post .
15 Hampshire has set up a new post for housing and care in the community .
16 The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London .
17 COMMANDER George Ness , head of Scotland Yard 's Flying Squad and tactical firearms unit , retires next week and takes up a new post with Securicor — whose cash delivery vans have been the target of the armed robbers his detectives risk their lives hunting down .
18 A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford .
19 Stolojan took up a senior post at the World Bank .
20 She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child .
21 He returned to Edinburgh in 1859 , taking up an architectural post at the Royal Engineers ' Office , where he rebuilt Broughty Castle , Broughty Ferry ( 1860–1 ) .
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