Example sentences of "[noun sg] take up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 2 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | Lawyer took up the pen first , followed by Old Looking Glass , Old Joseph , Old James and Timothy , until fifty-eight Nez Perce chiefs were recorded . |
| 4 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 5 | A tack room and hay loft took up the north side ; on the south side were grooms ' and coachman 's quarters . |
| 6 | Shetland Bird Club took up the issue and have appealed to the government to curb the fishery , even presenting a petition to the Prime Minister . |
| 7 | The Chandleresque tones on the promotional tape take up the tale : ‘ … downtown Cheltenham , gee , what a place . ’ |
| 8 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 9 | The bruiser took up the carpet-bag , at which point every ear caught the sounds of slow , measured footsteps and a man 's voice . |
| 10 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 11 | The next day the front page of the Sun took up the theme with enthusiasm : PORN LUST OF THE FOX ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 12 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 13 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 14 | Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done , but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack . |
| 15 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 16 | Whatever Jenny was involved in at any given moment took up the whole of her . |
| 17 | 3–11–1898 The Moderator read the following extract minute of Presbytery ; " The presbytery took up the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church as sent down by last General Assembly , and as Instructed by the Assembly , agreed to transmit the said report to the Kirk Session within their bounds for their information . " |
| 18 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 19 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 20 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 21 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | Depending on the status of the borrower , fees may be charged by the lender for arranging the loan , managing the loan throughout the period of the loan , early payment and failure to take up the loan . |
| 23 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 24 | Peter Zwack , a Hungarian-born millionaire liqueur manufacturer who had renounced United States citizenship to take up the post of Hungary 's ambassador to the USA in September 1990 , was dismissed from the post on April 10 amidst public recriminations with the Hungarian government . |
| 25 | If mum takes up the game again , then why not her children in future years ? |
| 26 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 27 | The video takes up the story of two of the characters from A Weekend Away whom we now meet on holiday on the south coast of England . |
| 28 | The man of wealth and pride Takes up the space that many poor supplied ; |
| 29 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 30 | Captain Logan fulfilled Wahlitits ' omen of death and then fell himself as Wahlitits ' wife took up the warrior 's rifle . |