Example sentences of "[noun] take up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 2 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 3 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 4 | Using their favoured analogy in which the complexities of a nation-state were reduced to the simplicities of a corner shop balance sheet , the newly appointed boss of the Institute took up the cudgels again in February 1990 . |
| 5 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 6 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 7 | You may not need as much as that , but erm Bacteria , nitrates in the soil and the plants taking up the nitrates some of the plants . |
| 8 | New chairman takes up the reins |
| 9 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 10 | When a different set of people takes up the questions , this becomes obvious . |
| 11 | Herbert Read in his book Education through Art took up the categories of types put forward by Jung . |
| 12 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Paul took up the drums , Steve sang and Wally became a guitarist , not a bad one either , very much in the Ron Wood school . |
| 16 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 17 | Another set of problems at the level of institutional approval was created for the CNAA by the decision of the University of London to run down its external degrees , and the CNAA 's agreement to take up the reins where possible and appropriate . |