Example sentences of "to take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richmann had found a couple of his men in one of the city 's bars , and dragged them out to take up position around a junction in the northern poor quarter . |
| 2 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 3 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 4 | En Shao appeared in Liverpool two years ago , shortly before he was due to take up position of principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra where he is now installed . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder if I ought to take up weight-lifting . ’ |
| 6 | In 1656 , Colonel John Washington left England to take up land in Virginia which later became Mount Vernon . |
| 7 | And you decided to take up floristry because you saw a course advertised in a magazine ? ’ |
| 8 | You do not necessarily need to take up space by publishing them with the competition but they must be readily available on request . |
| 9 | By attracting famous names BPT hopes to create a snowball effect , boosting confidence and encouraging smaller retailers to take up space . |
| 10 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 11 | Her incentive to take up painting came after she read an article in the Sunday Telegraph about Brigitte Bardot , and , in particular , a poem titled ‘ Complaint of an abandoned dog ’ . |
| 12 | Later Marie Wassilieff too was to claim that she had persuaded Modigliani to take up painting again . |
| 13 | And a new exhibition of water colours at Oxford 's Old Fire Station , but what inspired the artist to take up painting ? |
| 14 | Stirling ordered the crews to take up formation and , bumping over the rough ground in the moonlight , they headed for the airfield . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's important to get more children to take up school dinners . |
| 16 | The larva is then able to take up water from the environment and enlarges to rupture the remaining layers and escape . |
| 17 | The other , the other thing that we worked , w we 've been working with , and are still working with , erm to take up campaign for tenants in who 're on Supplementary Benefit or Housing Benefit supplement , erm to claim the higher rate heating addition for their flat . |
| 18 | The study shows that normal enterocytes are able to take up PT-gliadin . |
| 19 | His hobby is walking and he plans to take up bike riding . |
| 20 | This species is the main alternative to spruce in much of the Uplands but has a much reduced capacity to take up sulphur compounds than any forest when assessed on the basis of weight per unit area . |
| 21 | Forbes says nurses have a role in motivating their elderly clients to take up exercise by reassuring them of its safety — as long as proper precautions are taken and an appropriate activity is selected . |
| 22 | They hope it will encourage more people to take up dance . |
| 23 | If ever I get the chance I would love to take up sky diving and roam through the Amazon jungle ( especially while it 's still around ) to collect undiscovered plants for medical research . |
| 24 | Ladies Day — All activities in the Festival area are aimed at encouraging more ladies to take up tennis . |
| 25 | Her view that we should encourage schools to take up tennis is one that is very much at the heart of our philosophy . |
| 26 | I would have liked to specialise in classics or literature , but the teachers of these two subjects were away at the war , so it was necessary to take up mathematics which the headmaster himself taught . |
| 27 | Back in London , deserting his native Liverpool which he compared unfavourably to Manchester , he was advised by William Leach at the British Museum to take up lithography . |
| 28 | I did n't really know how to take up boxing . |
| 29 | Nurses , particularly health visitors , have an important role to play in encouraging parents to take up immunisation and there is concern about falling rates of acceptance . |
| 30 | So she hid all his Persian textbooks and persuaded him to take up badminton instead . |