Example sentences of "take up [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Prototype materials were tried out in these schools with the help of field curriculum workers ( mobile teacher trainers whose story we shall take up in a later chapter ) and later refined and distributed in final form to a further eight hundred schools with a similar scale of supervision , in the hope that these would serve as a nucleus in each state for further dissemination to other schools .
2 After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey .
3 This suggests an important theme which will be taken up in a later discussion of Paisley 's leadership style .
4 In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) .
5 Wait for a suitable moment and say : " That is a very interesting point you have raised , Mr R. , which we might wish to take up at a later meeting , but I really do n't think it helps our problem at the moment . "
6 Note roughly how much you will have to take up on the longer line .
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