Example sentences of "[vb base] take up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraqi troops begin taking up positions on the Saudi border . |
| 2 | After taking the Bar examination you may obtain employment in the legal department of a commercial firm under the aegis of an employed barrister as a ‘ commercial pupil , ’ and this will give you three months ' exemption from pupillage if you afterwards decide to take up practice at the Bar . |
| 3 | They may be worth considering if you live in a high-rise flat , or have infrequent refuse collection , but they do take up space . |
| 4 | I recommend taking up position at — ‘ |
| 5 | Trainees may leave at any time if , for example , they wish to take up employment . |
| 6 | Well yes , because in the schools now they 've started erm some of the schools have taken up celebration , Divali which is coming up in November and erm they celebrate some of the other festivals as well . |
| 7 | Other graduates continue with economics at the postgraduate level ; some have taken up posts as economic advisers in Africa . |
| 8 | Nick Peterken and Andrew West have taken up posts in Hartlepool , while John Lewis has joined the company 's Barnard Castle office of Watson 's . |
| 9 | I walk two miles a day and I have taken up gardening again . " |
| 10 | ( The TRAGEDIANS have taken up positions for the continuation of the mime : which in this case means a love scene , sexual and passionate , between the QUEEN and the POISONER/KING . ) |
| 11 | Since 1983 , over 3 million young people have taken up Youth Training places . |
| 12 | ‘ I have taken up office in Rex House in London , but will be a frequent visitor to the sites , ’ he pledged . |
| 13 | And all , all the other things we 've listed out that have taken up time of the team were n't being done in September . |
| 14 | The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir . |
| 15 | Other NHS treatment is free only for those from countries with reciprocal agreements , such as Australia , the European Community , refugees and those who have taken up residence here . |
| 16 | Thus the right to provide services has actually been invoked by nationals against their own state , when they have taken up residence abroad . |
| 17 | My television harangued me to buy endless varieties of insecticide and creature-killer , whereas in Bali it is taboo to move into a new home before the geckos and house-spiders have taken up residence first . |
| 18 | Already certain less-than-fashionable New Yorkers have taken up residence in the sewers and subway shafts . |
| 19 | Durham 's Ray Currie , drawn at the dam end , punched a groundbait feeder and maggot 60 yards out taking 16 specimens all of which had chunks missing and fungus growing following their close encounters with the scavenging birds which have taken up residence on the water . |
| 20 | Since February buyers have taken up 1.5m bales , double the amount in the same period last year . |
| 21 | For three separate periods I have taken up quarters , each time for several weeks , where I was not known , and as a lodger have shared the lives of people … |
| 22 | have taken up Egyptian poses |
| 23 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 24 | An exception is made if the country in which you have taken up residency has a double tax agreement with the UK ( see below ) . |
| 25 | They have taken up men 's cast-off garments in order to ‘ support a difference , ( sig . |
| 26 | That 's why it 's best to go through an agency or er something like White and Eddies because they have people that collect them and they have people who have to take up references and |
| 27 | It is part of the training in magical traditions that participants learn to take up roles and then drop them again after the working session is over . |
| 28 | Whether or not Aldershot need to take up Swindon 's offer of hospitality depends on a high court hearing on Wednesday . |