Example sentences of "[verb] taken up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern . |
| 2 | Ken Hollands has taken up the appointment of North Western Area Director from David MacInnes . |
| 3 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 4 | So far nobody has taken up the suggestion that since goalkeepers have become bigger , scoring would be made easier if the goals themselves were enlarged . |
| 5 | In addition to the Audit Commission and the CBI , Business in the Community ( BIC ) has taken up the theme of ‘ partnership ’ . |
| 6 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 7 | In his last year as President , Woodward is desperately keen to give Essex their first senior national title and has taken up the role of joint-manager to that end . |
| 8 | USL has taken up the baton of Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format technology from OSF , and has signed with the UK 's Defence Research Agency — the originator of the ANDF technology — to commercialise it for release with SVR4.2 . |
| 9 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 10 | However , since all readers of Update might reasonably be expected to have a keen interest in training issues , the Training and Development Lead Body ( TDLB ) has been chosen to illustrate how at least one such organisation has taken up the challenge to develop qualifications for its sector . |
| 11 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 12 | A factory in Northamptonshire has taken up the challenge to create the fish footwear . |
| 13 | Mr Morris ' solicitor has taken up the case . |
| 14 | Tony Bell has taken up the reigns of captaincy at Middlesbrough once more . |
| 15 | Taylor has taken up the fight and is tackling small business worries over banks charges head . |
| 16 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 17 | It has taken up the cause of a South Ronaldsay mother , seven of whose children have been in care since November 1990 . |
| 18 | Birkenhead MP Frank Field has taken up the fight of Tranmere residents who feared they were in danger of becoming a ‘ forgotten area . ’ |
| 19 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 20 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 21 | I mean , I 'm n this is no criticism because you , you could n't er , you 'd have taken up the whole hour if you 'd included examples . |
| 22 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 23 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 24 | Worsley was reappointed surgeon-general to the army in Ireland in 1647 , but seems not to have taken up the post . |
| 25 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 26 | She 's been monitoring my progress , since I 've taken up the job again , and she is far from pleased . |
| 27 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 28 | Now another siren had taken up the warning . |
| 29 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
| 30 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |