Example sentences of "[noun pl] took up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 2 | The departmental appraisals took up the bulk of the self-evaluation report . |
| 3 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 4 | The Kay brothers took up the design , made further improvements to it , and produced their stones uniformly on Andrew 's machine . |
| 5 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 6 | Computer technology was giving rise to a variety of innovative developments , and the field was in general pioneered by the CNAA and its institutions before the universities took up the challenge . |
| 7 | Eventually , four non-farmers took up the challenge in the hope of winning a ten thousand pound nest-egg . |
| 8 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 9 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 10 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 11 | The Tokugawa 's enemies took up the rallying cry of ‘ revere the emperor and expel the barbarian ’ ( sonnó0 jó0i ) , and kept it long after their leaders realized the impossibility of bringing external contacts to an end . |
| 12 | The government forces took up a position near Tranent , ten miles [ 16 km ] east of Edinburgh , just inland from the village of Prestonpans on the Firth of Forth . |
| 13 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 14 | Hollywood was just beginning to realize that the old phenomenon of stars might have an added significance in a period of depression and there must have been considerable delight in the studios at the alacrity with which the critics took up the subject of Cagney . |
| 15 | So the chain stores took up the challenge . |
| 16 | More and more instruments took up the melody , drowning out the frail lyric line . |
| 17 | Salomea was at the Cadby Nursery when , at short notice , several refugee nurses took up the chance of emigrating to America . |
| 18 | Bowley , the man who above all others took up the mantle of Booth and Rowntree in the early part of this century , that " it was unfortunately not the custom in Bowley 's day for the British Government to call outside experts . |
| 19 | Several others took up the chant . |