Example sentences of "[vb pp] take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation . |
| 2 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 3 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
| 4 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 5 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 6 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |
| 7 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 8 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 9 | But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer . |
| 10 | People like you are needed to take up the challenge . |
| 11 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 12 | ‘ We put patriotism and self-sacrifice into them , and there is no doubt that after they have learnt a certain amount of that , ’ he explained as he outlined his strategy to the National Defence Association , ‘ they will feel bound to take up the defence in one form or another , should it be necessary , when the time comes . ’ |
| 13 | And if you have only just been inspired to take up the sport , maybe on the back of the Redford film A River Runs Through It , the club will allow a small number of beginners . |
| 14 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 15 | So why have you started taking up the bag ? |
| 16 | These days women were allowed to take up the running , but she had n't and now it was too late . |
| 17 | Some alterations to the school premises took place in 1883 , when the yard was extended to take up the site of an old lodging house . |