Example sentences of "[vb base] taken up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been monitoring my progress , since I 've taken up the job again , and she is far from pleased . |
| 2 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 3 | And ethical investors in the City have taken up the SAS cause — some actually turning up to the SAS summer ball and joining in the dancing to Dezzman Devan 's reggae band and London funksters Push . |
| 4 | The 210 children have taken up the panto 's challenge and sought the advice of professional builders so they can construct Wendy 's house in brick in their school yard . |
| 5 | ‘ The major chains have taken up the promotion in a big way , but so have many independents , which is terrific because the promotion was n't designed just for the chains ; we wanted everyone to get involved . ’ |
| 6 | That is why we have taken up the position that we have over GATT , a position which is widely welcomed by that industry . |
| 7 | East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns . |
| 8 | More than 4,500 Ford employees have taken up the company 's new education scheme to encourage them to learn a foreign language . |
| 9 | Many elite writers such as Burnham and Weblen have taken up the issue of technological advance and argued that the increasing division of labour and sophistication of the practical instruments of government are associated not with greater participation by the newly enfranchised masses but with concentration of political power in the hands of those who control the technological resources . |
| 10 | Since you have taken up the Mastership of Jesus College , what have you done to encourage this , especially young contemporary British artists ? |
| 11 | There might be no ready and easy solution to the problems that taxi drivers face , but there are those , such as the Peace Train organisation , who have taken up the taxi drivers ' case and are concerned to alter public opinion and attitudes generally in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | So far a quarter of Britain 's 27 000 schools for the under-11s have taken up the offer of cut-price computers and training material . |
| 13 | A personalised scroll , a car stickers and a copy of the book Investigating the Seashore are among the benefits enjoyed by people who have taken up the offer . |
| 14 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 15 | Shrewsbury and Borough Council have taken up the flagpole , have decided to spend a considerable amount of money on providing a visitor attraction in those buildings , around those buildings . |
| 16 | Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford . |
| 17 | Enticed by a 2 per cent incentive payment on top of the National Insurance rebate , some five million people have taken up the option since it was introduced in July 1988 . |
| 18 | Far from feeling second best , the Mexicans have taken up the challenge with vigour : ‘ We aim to be a cultural invasion of Frankfurt and the rest of Germany ’ , said the Mexican commissioner , Eugenia Meyer . |
| 19 | Executives from over 300 North West firms have taken up the Challenge this year |
| 20 | Many subsequent critics have taken up the point made by radical blacks at the time that this was a romantic and pastoral view of the rural South , but several early critics hailed the film as a brilliantly realistic depiction of a whole section of American society . |
| 21 | Localisation of protein alone may identify not only producing cells , but also target cells and cells which have taken up the protein by endocytosis . |