Example sentences of "take up the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 2 | We took up the lost threads of our writing together with even greater dedication . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 5 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |