Example sentences of "[adj] take up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools responded variously , some taking up the opportunity , or challenge , of collaborative teaching while others seized the chance to reduce class sizes , for decades a source of frustration and complaint in the primary profession . |
| 2 | The descriptions of the author 's visits from one bureaucrat after another take up the bulk of No Breathing Room . |
| 3 | As always , Greta was prepared to take up the challenge ( ‘ We might put pressure on the War Office at this end ’ ) , but was forestalled by an offer from another direction . |
| 4 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 5 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |
| 6 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 7 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 8 | On resigning in June 1991 to take up the post of union Defence Minister [ see p. 38288 ] he was replaced by Sudhakarrai Naik . |
| 9 | Surprisingly the men were always delighted to take up the offer . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It was something I 'd never given any thought to , but it was nice to be asked , and when the Ulster Branch were happy to accept my nomination I was delighted to take up the offer . |
| 11 | Mrs Bowden 's brother is Nigel Watts , who in 1984 took up the campaign against the insurance company , which had lain dormant since 1978 . |
| 12 | This is rather like putting the cart before the horse and it is very difficult later to take up the study of the horse when all previous emphasis has been placed upon the cart ! |
| 13 | As it stands , few serious runners are likely to take up the challenge to turn it on . |
| 14 | It is a massive redistribution of wealth from one owner ( the Government , on behalf of everyone in the country ) to a much narrower segment of the population ( the 4 to 5 million likely to take up the offer ) who will be able to buy the assets at a discount . |
| 15 | It is a massive redistribution of wealth from one owner ( the Government , on behalf of everyone in the country ) to a much narrower segment of the population ( the 4 to 5 million likely to take up the offer ) who will be able to buy the assets at a discount . |
| 16 | Friday was national Trading Places Day and housing staff at East Hampshire District Council were quick to take up the challenge . |
| 17 | Social services personnel were also quick to take up the theme . |
| 18 | We could all take up the role of publicity agent , advertising our own favourite recreation ! |
| 19 | Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal . |
| 20 | Those taking up the scheme will be obliged to let the public walk on their land . |
| 21 | Those taking up the offer must also take out building and contents insurance with the society . |
| 22 | Among those taking up the challenge was Haslemere architect Alan Coombes , who entered for the 15th time with his 1914 three-and-a-half horsepower three-speed , 4,500cc Douglas . |
| 23 | Not only was the functioning of the library committee curtailed by industrial action — as it was in every school studied but the many attitudinal and motivational effects of the reorganisation of secondary schooling in the area as a whole must have been significant in shaping the perspectives and actions of those taking up the project challenge . |
| 24 | In November 1633 Crowe had been appointed ambassador at Constantinople , though he was unable to take up the appointment for another five years . |
| 25 | WHEN William Stukeley arrived in Stamford in 1729 to take up the living of All Saints ' Church , he was already a well-known physician and public figure , and today he is still remembered as one of the father figures of British archaeology . |
| 26 | Sadly , Brian Rowe 's personal circumstances have now changed and he is not able to take up the post . |
| 27 | Jamie Blair encourages young Britons whose Enterprise Allowance falls short to take up the offer . |
| 28 | One of the big four supermarkets , Sainsbury 's says it 's happy to take up the gauntlet . |
| 29 | She checked herself so as not to rush and then advanced over-slowly , first took up the bottle of rum , poured a glass , then picked up a guinea , seemed , he thought ( and smiled ) to test it , pocketed it , brought him the rum . |
| 30 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |