Example sentences of "[modal v] take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Whitehouse believes scientists should take up the cudgels |
| 2 | He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge . |
| 3 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 4 | If Dave has no joy with the local highway authority , he could try enlisting the help of a local councillor , or a local branch of the Ramblers ' Association might take up the case . |
| 5 | But in this case , Everett argued , Guinness Mahon could take up the slack as the company fully expected other investors who had been too slow to meet the deadline to come in . |
| 6 | We are just completing two major jobs and Conoco 's could take up the slack , ’ he said . |
| 7 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 8 | ‘ Do let's take up the offer . |
| 9 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 10 | NatWest Securities analysts said : ‘ Good management deserves the support of shareholders : we would take up the rights . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Castles of Edward the First ’ and ‘ Medieval Festivals ’ would take up the afternoon . |
| 12 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 13 | Many people would take up the opportunity to train in a completely new craft . |
| 14 | They would sing Welsh songs together , she would take up the descant , he would make up verses with just a little edge to them . |
| 15 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 16 | And then — then they would take up the hoe and become farmers . |
| 17 | I shall take up the matter more fully later in my remarks . |
| 18 | Roger Katz , 48 , currently manager of Dillons ' handsome new store in Kingston , will take up the management of the 14,000 sq ft Piccadilly store on 5th January . |
| 19 | In just over two weeks , the four will take up the pins and the microphone for the benefit of Telegraph readers . |
| 20 | He will take up the duties of Counsellor , Atomic Energy , on August 17 and succeeds Chris Loughlin , who has been appointed Director , Transport Division , from September 1 |
| 21 | Optimists say that fast-multiplying electronic equipment rather than people will take up the space . |
| 22 | If there 's any subsidence later on , this make of liner will take up the strain better than Butyl , claims the makers . |
| 23 | The chairman will take up the matter with the local councillors . |
| 24 | Mr Wright , 42 , who will take up the post in September , is currently finance chief at Wessex regional health authority . |
| 25 | DONALD PETRIE ( Clydeside ) will take up the post of Scottish development and administrative officer next month . |
| 26 | This essay will take up the theme of dominant ideologies and local communities as a part of the wider methodological problem of how we , as anthropologists , consider the nature of the relationship between the communities we study and the wider world they inhabit . |
| 27 | He will take up the £51,000 a year job as soon as possible and is expected to have to give up his chairmanship of the all-party defence select committee . |
| 28 | NAREA hopes SSDs and health authorities will take up the charter and incorporate it into working practices . |
| 29 | ‘ Once he is quite well , he will take up the reins and the business will be booming again , ’ she said out loud . |
| 30 | Premature camshaft wear , even at 26,000 miles , is not unknown and this will result in poor performance — often there will be no tell-tale noise as the hydraulic cam followers will take up the slack . |