Example sentences of "taking up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at night , she supposed , they had tasks to perform — making up the fire , taking up water ready for the morning ablutions … |
| 2 | That is not to say only experts need apply for these jobs ; we run a programme of training weekends and people taking up committee posts should be strongly encouraged to attend an appropriate local training weekend . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you taking up boxing as a hobby ? ’ |
| 4 | Taking up evidence from Greenpeace which simply drew figures from the national forest surveys coordinated by the UN ECE and EC , Sir Hugh wanted to know if the Forestry Commission accepted that ‘ the beech forests of Britain are among the worst affected in Europe ’ . |
| 5 | My interviewees are taking up subject positions as readers as they talk to me . |
| 6 | Do n't forget , either , that tobacco is a cash-crop : intrinsically worthless , taking up land that could be put to far better use . |
| 7 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 8 | The most consistently outspoken broadsides against the old Establishment came from the Institute of Directors , a once moribund association of small businessmen and oddball intellectuals , which revived itself by taking up Thatcherism almost before the term had been coined . |
| 9 | His adoption led to his taking up work with the deaf . |
| 10 | Likewise , a dealer wo n't want a record taking up space in the racks of his or her shop unless he or she thinks the public will ask for it . |
| 11 | He said look you do n't need to take that to school , it 's just taking up space which I could stand in . |
| 12 | She 's taking up journalism , you know , ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Taking up rugby was one of my better decisions , ’ he said . |
| 14 | British soldiers saturated the latter area with CS gas before taking up occupation . |
| 15 | American naive paintings , she herself had never considered taking up painting until shortly after she moved to England in 1955 to get married . |
| 16 | You see retiredf people taking up painting or writing novels . |
| 17 | it 's reacting and taking up oxygen . |
| 18 | So that 's that 's the that 's the big sort of main definition of oxidation , taking up oxygen . |
| 19 | I mean it is it is genuinely part of the definition but the definition they had originally has got stretched and stretched so now it it does n't there 's no obvious tie up with oxidation , meaning burning and taking up oxygen , and reduction is the of opposite , so if you get the oxygen out or you put hydrogen in or where it gains electrons . |
| 20 | In contrast to the unpremeditated way in which Fleming was taking up chance observations , various scientists were making methodical studies of microbes of all kinds . |
| 21 | The Agen loose-head , who has never had a reputation for being a hothead , is refereeing junior and children 's games unaware that an old regulation of the French Federation — which used to automatically reduce the length of his ban if a player could show repentance by taking up refereeing — is no longer valid . |
| 22 | Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’ |
| 23 | And if you 're just taking up gardening , it can be difficult to decide what you really need — to begin with you can easily get by with a few basic tools . |
| 24 | I recommend taking up position at — ‘ |
| 25 | Two hours ’ rest before taking up position for the attack . |
| 26 | You may not be actually using the previous stitch pattern this time around , but it is still taking up memory , whether you use it or not . |
| 27 | Memory managers help , of course — the ability to load drivers up into Upper Memory Blocks is very helpful — but you 've often got drivers you 're rarely going to need taking up memory . |
| 28 | For a speaker of English as a mother tongue , taking up EFL as a career is a quixotic choice , full of opportunities but also full of uncertainties and pitfalls . |
| 29 | A number of motives may lead people into taking up EFL . |
| 30 | Annie is notorious for lots of things : leaving her dismal clergyman husband , joining Charles Bradlaugh in defence of birth control , urging the London matchgirls to strike , taking up theosophy and stirring up Hindu nationalism in ways many Indian leaders thought dangerous . |