Example sentences of "[noun] take up [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Saunderson takes up Maya theme . |
| 2 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 3 | Retiring home to Essex with eye trouble in 1965 , Phyllis took up Medau , which she loves . |
| 4 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 5 | Uncle Philip took up Bothwell and walked from the stage to his workbench . |
| 6 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 7 | Yorkshire Region takes up Playsafe initiative |
| 8 | Following Jenner 's reward of £10,000 from the House of Commons in June 1802 for discovering and promoting vaccination , Bell took up Jesty 's cause and in August 1803 wrote to George Pearson [ q.v. ] , founder of the Vaccine Pock Institute , describing in detail the 1774 vaccinations . |