Example sentences of "[conj] take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any EC national may now reside in any member state to seek or take up employment , accompanied by his family ( Directive 68/360/EC ) , establish firms or provide services ( 73/148 ) and remain in that territory after having been employed in that State ( 70/1251 , 72/194 ) . |
| 2 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 3 | In order not to obstruct gangways or take up rack space , dry powder systems would have to be designed with extensive pipework feeding nozzles located in the racks or gangways from a centralised , pressurised storage unit . |
| 4 | If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read . |
| 5 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 6 | by no means all of the large reptiles that are found in the Mesozoic rocks are dinosaurs — the reptile groups that took up life in the sea or the air were only distantly related . |
| 7 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 8 | Evidence that they achieve any results other than taking up time and leaving you sticky is not , to the best of my knowledge , available . |
| 9 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in our bodies , which he wants to use as his temple ( Cor. 6:19 ) . |
| 10 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in a man once he is invited in . |
| 11 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 12 | no cold cisterns and pipes in the loft to freeze and take up space |
| 13 | In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals . |
| 14 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 15 | it 's reacting and taking up oxygen . |
| 16 | I mean it is it is genuinely part of the definition but the definition they had originally has got stretched and stretched so now it it does n't there 's no obvious tie up with oxidation , meaning burning and taking up oxygen , and reduction is the of opposite , so if you get the oxygen out or you put hydrogen in or where it gains electrons . |
| 17 | The scale can be illustrated by the fact that 30 years ago our young people were maturing at a later stage than now , but in many cases were leaving school at an earlier age and taking up employment — the gap between adolescence and employment was perhaps only 12 months . |
| 18 | The material used was cheap , readily available — very often with attractive photographs or other illustrated matter — and took up space unfilled by the papers ' own journalists . |
| 19 | A detachment of Cromwell 's troops guarding the bridge at nearby Bewdley came to Kidderminster to cut off their retreat and took up position in the square . |
| 20 | Policemen , armed , filed out of the building and took up position . |
| 21 | The troops gathered the Croats in the Franciscan monastery on Tuesday after Muslims overran the area and took up position on all sides . |
| 22 | Asa banked and went down , the Yak followed , turning in a half circle , and took up station again . |
| 23 | I was in the lower sixth , taking Maths , English General , and Biology , so I dropped the Biology and took up English with a tutor . |
| 24 | He built a fortune in the construction industry and then moved to Highfields Stables in the village of Adstone just north of Banbury and took up training . |
| 25 | The ‘ naked ’ crab moved about 60 cm ( 2 ft ) away while the first crab nipped out of its damaged shell and took up residence in the new one . |
| 26 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 27 | Social ostracism followed outbursts of silliness , hubby drank a lot , did n't hit her often but did bad-mouth her excessively , and took up fishing ; went away for weekends with male friends she 'd never heard of , Claimed to be tackling rivers but kept bringing home filleted sea fish on the Sunday night , and was always suspiciously careful to empty his pockets when he gave her his clothes to wash . |
| 28 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
| 29 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |
| 30 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |