Example sentences of "[prep] take up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 2 | In the first situation , the ideal , as suggested at the end of the previous section , is to produce a valuation of the chance of taking up a strategic option . |
| 3 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 4 | ‘ But in all seriousness , we understand from the clerks that Quatt is dissatisfied with his reception here — as well he might be ! — and has the intention of taking up a post as archdeacon somewhere in Worcestershire , where he was living before . |
| 5 | In the third year of the History of Art honours course students have the option of taking up a short work placement in a museum , art gallery or auction house . |
| 6 | If you are considering taking up a franchise you need good advice — and the right financing package . |
| 7 | The Grand Prix title could bring her earnings in just one week to an unprecedented £120,000 nice work for a girl who last year was considering taking up a full-time job because she was struggling to make a living on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 8 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 9 | The man turned and gave me a friendly nod , before taking up a small piece of wood with pencil markings on it . |
| 10 | He then became registrar at Leeds General Infirmary , before taking up a fellowship at Harvard Medical School , where he did research into organ transplants . |
| 11 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 12 | They remained there for thirteen years before taking up a similar position in Liverpool . |
| 13 | Coun. Mrs Kirkham , who is married with two teenage children , is a seasoned county councillor and was elected to represent Victoria ward in Thornaby in 1985 before taking up a seat on the borough council in 1987 . |
| 14 | He was a master stylist , a sharp , satirical observer of the social scene with an unfailing capacity for taking up a variety of interests , and the ability to persuade his readers to share his enthusiasms , however out-of-the-way . |
| 15 | Today I would like you to think about taking up a new interest or hobby . |
| 16 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 17 | As soon as he was up and about he insisted on taking up a Magister and flying it one-handed , and before long he was back on operations with an artificial arm . |
| 18 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 19 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 20 | Some employees believe that the trauma of uprooting their families and homes outweighs any benefits that may be gained by taking up a new position ( possibly a promotion ) somewhere else in the country . |
| 21 | We can usefully begin our discussion here by taking up a very important and characteristic religious theme : the ambiguity or ambivalence which is so often such a striking feature of mystical power . |