Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] take up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dave has no joy with the local highway authority , he could try enlisting the help of a local councillor , or a local branch of the Ramblers ' Association might take up the case . |
| 2 | If there 's any subsidence later on , this make of liner will take up the strain better than Butyl , claims the makers . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose all the sorting out at the flat will take up the spare time for quite a while . |
| 4 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 5 | The chairman will take up the matter with the local councillors . |
| 6 | This essay will take up the theme of dominant ideologies and local communities as a part of the wider methodological problem of how we , as anthropologists , consider the nature of the relationship between the communities we study and the wider world they inhabit . |