Example sentences of "take up the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calendar , with dates of school holidays clearly marked , takes up the central panel of the sheet , around the edge are further panels containing information about staff , governors , PTA , emergency contacts , useful phone numbers and how long children should be kept off school for mumps , measles and other common childhood illnesses . |
| 2 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 3 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 4 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 5 | Secondly , two in-depth case studies ( probably of Birmingham and Manchester ) will take up the central question of why some women 's initiatives are effective while others , with initially similar aims are not . |
| 6 | Presumably Hurd and Baker do not mean by this that Hamas , the Gaza-based fundamentalist movement dedicated to destroying Israel ( unlike the PLO ) , should take up the official torch of Palestinian independence ! |
| 7 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | News of the Conservative Party conference at Brighton took up the greater part of Wednesday 's ‘ The World at One ’ . |
| 12 | We took up the lost threads of our writing together with even greater dedication . |
| 13 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 14 | Countless times , before Longines took up the electronic timing of practice , Ferrari had managed to surprise every one else 's chronometers with their ‘ times ’ : they had a rabid press and rabid fans behind them and the Monza authorities , besides being among the least efficient on the circuit , were also the most pliant . |
| 15 | He took up the daily routine of his swim again , and one afternoon when he was in the sea there was a visit to the bungalow by Timothy Gedge . |
| 16 | Once the firms ' merger was in place , Mr Morrison took up the thorny issue of rationalising the accountancy profession . |
| 17 | They then move a little further down before taking up the major part of their trip , largely unbroken to the Gulf of Mexico except for stopovers to explore the towns and recover from incidents , including loss of their canoe on one occasion . |
| 18 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 19 | Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ? |
| 20 | Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern . |
| 21 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 22 | As the age-structure changed older spectators tended to leave the terraces to take up the increasing amount of seated accommodation ; the ‘ ends ’ were left to ‘ the lads ’ . |
| 23 | After surviving the acquisition by SunSoft Inc of the greater part of his former employer — Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp — where he was European director , before going to become manager of Northern Europe for Sun Microsystems Inc 's software subsidiary , industry veteran Doug Miller last week resigned from the company ‘ to pursue other interests ’ after Peter Watkins was moved from SunSoft 's Mountain View , California headquarters to take up the newly-created position of general manager for SunSoft in Europe ; Watkins is also responsible for Northern Europe ( which includes the UK ) until a replacement for Miller is found . |
| 24 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 25 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 26 | In his press release the Secretary of State says : ’ Many of the new measures are designed to protect children from being influenced to take up the deadly habit of smoking . ’ |
| 27 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |
| 28 | Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office . |
| 29 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |