Example sentences of "[coord] take up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 2 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 3 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 4 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 5 | The new system will run under MS-DOS or Windows , transmits at a faster 10Mbps than its predecessor and takes up a fifth less memory space : 37Kb on a satellite , 46Kb on a server . |
| 6 | As it is , the three months ' requirement in Northern Ireland results in the disentitlement to vote of persons who would undoubtedly be able to vote in Great Britain , for example any person previously resident only in Great Britain who abandons his old residence and takes up a new one in Northern Ireland within three months of the qualifying date . |
| 7 | COMMANDER George Ness , head of Scotland Yard 's Flying Squad and tactical firearms unit , retires next week and takes up a new post with Securicor — whose cash delivery vans have been the target of the armed robbers his detectives risk their lives hunting down . |
| 8 | Nigel Carr is back in the Ulster fold and takes up a new responsibility as a selector |
| 9 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 10 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 11 | Floorboards tend to be fitted in long lengths and taking up a whole length is an unnecessary bore . |
| 12 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 13 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 14 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 15 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 16 | Students should stand ready to explain and to defend their views ; and to listen to counter views and take up a further position if the balance of the contending positions points that way . |
| 17 | This could be exacerbated by considering the possibility , not as remote as it might seem , that either party to the above dispute between the convert to utilitarianism and the Samaritan might in fact be convinced by the other 's argument and take up a different moral stance . |
| 18 | By filopodial extension and contraction the cells migrate , and take up a ring-like pattern of the wall of the embryo . |
| 19 | Cathryn used to work with the Social Work Department in Craigmillar , but took up a fixed term post at Haddington once the decision was taken to go on tour . |