Example sentences of "[verb] taken up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Government is also making available grants of $2.8 million for site selection and characterisation , but so far no Native American nation has taken up that offer . |
| 2 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 3 | Since losing her sight , Philippa Bastable has taken up competitive swimming and has a new career , too |
| 4 | These men had taken up influential posts at the universities and advised the government on the introduction of Protestantism into England . |
| 5 | By early July the Wordsworths had taken up temporary residence at Cottle 's house in Wine Street , Bristol , where Dorothy found the noise of the Bristol streets almost intolerable . |
| 6 | Work preparing the ‘ Marco Polo ’ story for the studio had taken up more time and resources than was originally envisaged . |
| 7 | Some former students have taken up administrative posts in various public and private enterprises and in the civil service and local government . |
| 8 | ‘ That is all I am fit for , and you have taken up that option . |
| 9 | You have taken up American citizenship . |
| 10 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
| 11 | But frogs can and several species in South America have taken up permanent residence . |
| 12 | The younger age group have taken up conspicuous consumption , presumably as a means of recouping some esteem in terms of the apparently dominant and universalistic class criteria . |
| 13 | The children of some middle-class parents have taken up working-class occupations . |
| 14 | SASPAC91 for PC 's is being made available under the CHEST deal to academic sites who want to hold it ; the cost of a site licence is just under 3,000 for five years , and about 15 sites have taken up this offer . |
| 15 | You see how beautifully evenly it 's taken up that ink . |