Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] take up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 2 | Back in London , deserting his native Liverpool which he compared unfavourably to Manchester , he was advised by William Leach at the British Museum to take up lithography . |
| 3 | But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen . |
| 4 | Just three of the qualities I possess that will be invaluable when I get the inevitable call to take up Football League management . |
| 5 | ‘ We read ’ , he read , ‘ in Richard Milward 's unreliable , tendentious and often plainly wrong book Early and Mediaeval Wimbledon that ‘ in 878 a Danish army took up winter quarters just across the river at Fulham . |
| 6 | This would reduce the ability of the living world to take up carbon dioxide . |
| 7 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 8 | THE INFLUX of Australians into the English domestic cricket scene continues unabated , the difference between today and yesteryear being that in the late 1940s and early 1950s players made the 12,000 mile northern journey to take up contracts with league and county sides after falling out of favour with State and national selectors . |
| 9 | This leads the non-violent professor to take up arms against the thugs to protect his home . |
| 10 | If you intend to move to a new area to take up employment it is wise to do some homework on local factors affecting recruitment . |
| 11 | In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden ; Gustave forbids its slaughter . |
| 12 | A total of 250 troops from France 's 4,200-strong local garrison took up position around the town of Dikhil in the south-west of the country , the scene of recent fighting between the government and the FRUD rebels [ see p. 38711 , where Dikhil is wrongly given as Kikhil ] . |
| 13 | The presentation was made to the Queen during her annual visit to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in July when each year the Royal Family take up residence . |