Example sentences of "[modal v] take up [art] [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 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 4 | Er , Erm , another thing you might do , you might take up a hobby that you 've got to think about . |
| 5 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ For another , if it is n't too far ahead for you to enquire into this , Harry , then I might take up an invitation I 've received to attend Newmarket races at the beginning of October . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We are just completing two major jobs and Conoco 's could take up the slack , ’ he said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Do let's take up the offer . |
| 12 | Within the next year , a new more powerful launcher may take up a craft that will hover 36000 km above the Equator . |
| 13 | A qualified accountant may take up a position as : |
| 14 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |
| 15 | Chapter 6 formalises a decision-making model in which a household may take up a number of different income opportunities according to its capability and the ‘ entry costs ’ of such opportunities . |
| 16 | You 'd go in and have to queue up , wait for the chance to get the frying pan to put bacon and egg in it , and your hands so cold you could hardly hold it , and that would take up a quarter of an hour . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , since we live in a capitalist society , the argument is an important one for those who would take up a correctionalist stance under it . |
| 18 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 19 | I would have thought romance would take up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | NatWest Securities analysts said : ‘ Good management deserves the support of shareholders : we would take up the rights . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The Castles of Edward the First ’ and ‘ Medieval Festivals ’ would take up the afternoon . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many people would take up the opportunity to train in a completely new craft . |
| 25 | They would sing Welsh songs together , she would take up the descant , he would make up verses with just a little edge to them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And then — then they would take up the hoe and become farmers . |
| 28 | I can not say that in an administrative context we shall take up every item that appears in the new clauses , at least not in the way that is implied . |
| 29 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 30 | I shall take up the matter more fully later in my remarks . |