Example sentences of "up [art] post as " in BNC.
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1 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
2 | After years of study he had qualified in Mining Engineering and had taken up a post as a college lecturer on mining . |
3 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London . |
6 | Finding teaching too confining , she gave up a post as a governess in 1895 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | David came back to Scotland in 1968 to take up a post as an assistant to the director of education with the City of Edinburgh Corporation . |
9 | ‘ But in all seriousness , we understand from the clerks that Quatt is dissatisfied with his reception here — as well he might be ! — and has the intention of taking up a post as archdeacon somewhere in Worcestershire , where he was living before . |
10 | Helena Hamerow , the Mary Somerville Research Fellow , resigned in the summer to take up a post as lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Durham . |
11 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |