Example sentences of "[noun] to take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Romanians would be given the chance to take up an ownership stake in a POF — a kind of embryonic mutual fund — by registering the privatization vouchers which were to be issued to all eligible citizens . |
| 32 | The beaten favourite in Braiswick 's race was Mamaluna , whose jockey , Greville Starkey , later announced he would be retiring at the end of the season to take up a post with the Newmarket trainer Michael Stoute . |
| 33 | Disability Working Allowance will make it easier for disabled people to take up a job . |
| 34 | They 've just produced a luxury version of the aircraft , which they hope will encourage more people to take up the sport . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Rice , a controversial omission from South Africa 's World Cup team , has stepped down after 10 years as Transvaal 's captain to take up a position as a TV commentator during the competition . |
| 40 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 41 | In 1985 Jones moved back to Provo to take up an appointment in the physics department at his Alma Mater , BYU . |
| 42 | I 've asked the union to take up the case for me . ’ |
| 43 | For the Mau Maus to take up the offering was like asking Jack the Ripper to baby sit . |
| 44 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 45 | A part of the Jubilee Appeal funding has enabled Jennie Appleby to take up the half-time paid post of North East Field Officer , for a year in the first instance . |
| 46 | There is no obligation to take up a career in these Services . |
| 47 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 48 | ‘ Very well ! ’ sighed Isambard , and reached a hand to take up the candle in its iron holder from the rocky ledge of the wall . |
| 49 | Helena Hamerow , the Mary Somerville Research Fellow , resigned in the summer to take up a post as lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Durham . |
| 50 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 51 | Other members of the family are often important in at least stimulating an awareness of the possibilities of sport and , at most , actively encouraging the brother or sister to take up the sport . |
| 52 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 53 | These costs are relevant because they are directly attributable to the decision to take up an opportunity . |
| 54 | Depressed by what he perceived as a work-shy post-war Britain , Braham in May 1952 sailed with his wife and his three young sons to take up a commission in the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 55 | With its horn blaring and its lights flashing , the bus had left its route to take up the chase . |
| 56 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 57 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 58 | If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house . |
| 59 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 60 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |