Example sentences of "to take up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beaten favourite in Braiswick 's race was Mamaluna , whose jockey , Greville Starkey , later announced he would be retiring at the end of the season to take up a post with the Newmarket trainer Michael Stoute . |
| 2 | Q I wish to take up a career in outdoor activities and am looking for information on the qualifications and training needed for this kind of work . |
| 3 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 4 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 5 | The early running was made by the 100–1 outsider City Scandal , who after two furlongs conceded the lead to Shikampur , with Pinza in about sixth place and Aureole unable to take up a handy position . |
| 6 | They are also due to take up a similar request by Macedonia and discuss whether Serbia and Montenegro alone can inherit Yugoslavia 's international status . |
| 7 | PETER Stefanini , managing director of Anglo United subsidiary Coalite Chemicals , is leaving to take up a directorship at Croda International . |
| 8 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 9 | Disability Working Allowance will make it easier for disabled people to take up a job . |
| 10 | The man himself departed to take up a more remunerative and prestigious post elsewhere , and his friends and supporters fell silent , or retired , or resigned and took jobs in America . |
| 11 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |
| 12 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 13 | These cells will later lay down the skeleton and move on the inner wall of the blastula to take up a characteristic ring-like pattern . |
| 14 | The foot placement is very important as it encourages the rest of the body to take up a good position . |
| 15 | An increasingly popular way of starting a new business is to take up a franchise . |
| 16 | Duncan , at six feet eight inches , has a devastating service , and is now off to Texas to take up a tennis scholarship . |
| 17 | In the three or so years before matters were finally settled , a lot happened ; George Simpson gave up his interest in the partnership to retire to his leafy mansion near Reigate ; Hofmann had left England to take up a prestigious academic post in Berlin ; and the new Nicholson , Maule & Nicholson partnership had begun to transfer its production to a site at Hackney Wick . |
| 18 | It was of course pure selfishness , as having persuaded the Girls to take up a short-lived career which he dominated in a exceedingly paternalistic manner , he did not remain a father figure when that career was about to finish . |
| 19 | Having secretly decided during his childhood to be a doctor , he had to give the idea up due to his deafness and decided to take up a farming career , enrolling at the Elsenberg Agricultural College , 30 miles from Cape Town . |
| 20 | This and similar instances stayed in my mind , because I believe that I am a competitor in every sense of the word , always ready to take up a challenge . |
| 21 | for example , an older sister found a sponsor for Gerta Jassem just two months after arriving in London to take up a job as a chambermaid . |
| 22 | It also includes those who prefer to remain unemployed , believing that their incomes from social security benefits do not make it worthwhile to take up a job . |
| 23 | Using a polyester line without sleeving allows easy adjustment by re-tying the knot after shortening a line or , in the case of minor differences , adding an overhand knot or two to take up a couple of centimetres . |
| 24 | He held rival services until his return to Britain in 1852 to take up a stipend at Lee in Lincoln , when he was succeeded at the Beco Chapel by a Mr Hossmer . |
| 25 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 26 | Con Tours ( the big London-based travel agents ) have an arrangement with the hotel by which they receive preference bookings during June/July/August in exchange for an undertaking to take up a minimum number of bookings for the ‘ 'shoulder ’ months of May and September . |
| 27 | I am sure Lennie Lawrence , Steve Gritt and Allan Curbishley would be delighted to take up a teaching post . |
| 28 | PA ( a management consultancy ) asked 145 companies taking part in its 1985 ‘ Annual Fringe Benefits Report ’ to say whether or not they provided assistance when senior executives had to move house to take up a new post . |
| 29 | Attempting to take up a post abroad without any preparatory updating could be courting disaster . |
| 30 | There is no reason at present why you can not take a course in one country even though you intend to take up a job elsewhere . |