Example sentences of "[be] to take up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increasingly popular way of starting a new business is to take up a franchise . |
| 2 | Cable & Wireless Plc has cut its stake in Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc to 25% from 40% because of problems at another local affiliate : the company recently won a contract to operate a state-run telephone system in Luzon island ; an unidentified foreign group is to take up the stake . |
| 3 | What we intend is to take up the area of ground you now have roped off , or a part of it — the broken corner of the hypocaust . ’ |
| 4 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |
| 5 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |