Example sentences of "[noun] to take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is also the best advertisement for encouraging kids to take up the game . |
| 2 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 3 | Commentators have seen this as an acknowledgement of the slowness of the French-speaking nations to take up the challenge of an international role . |
| 4 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 5 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 6 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 8 | IT would be reasonable to suppose that dreams of following Daley Thompson have inspired Anthony Brannen to take up the world record holder 's former mantle as Britain 's leading decathlete . |
| 9 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 10 | Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done , but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack . |
| 11 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | It was left to the capital 's campuses to take up the baton . |
| 13 | Depending on the status of the borrower , fees may be charged by the lender for arranging the loan , managing the loan throughout the period of the loan , early payment and failure to take up the loan . |
| 14 | The two boats to take up the lead were Barthelsson and Strandman who sailed right away from the fleet , opening up an enormous lead . |
| 15 | University — and particularly institute of education — suspicion of the entry of the CNAA into the field also spurred the universities to take up the challenge to validate the BEd that Robbins had thrown down . |
| 16 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 17 | Some of the workers in Glasgow , he said , had already decided to relocate to the Midlands to take up the offer of employment there . |
| 18 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 19 | Peter Zwack , a Hungarian-born millionaire liqueur manufacturer who had renounced United States citizenship to take up the post of Hungary 's ambassador to the USA in September 1990 , was dismissed from the post on April 10 amidst public recriminations with the Hungarian government . |
| 20 | As farmers are forced to look for ways to diversify , ostrich farming is tipped as being one of the growth areas , and Vince Tyack was one of the first farmers to take up the initiative . |
| 21 | Utah 's economic planners want aerospace , bio-medical and computing firms to take up the slack . |
| 22 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 23 | Note that the net 's top line runs across the back of the head to take up the slack . |
| 24 | They 've just produced a luxury version of the aircraft , which they hope will encourage more people to take up the sport . |
| 25 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake in Wirral to take up the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 26 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 27 | But if the U's beat Cardiff City on Friday , March 12 — their next league game — then there is a possibility that another new senior face will be arriving on loan to take up the goalkeeping duties . |
| 28 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 29 | I 've asked the union to take up the case for me . ’ |
| 30 | For the Mau Maus to take up the offering was like asking Jack the Ripper to baby sit . |