Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to take up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve .
2 If the Committee wishes to take up the offer of a presentation of the plan perhaps Bob Allan could advise me of your meeting dates in January and February .
3 Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running .
4 Yeah I think it just depends whether the local group want to take up the option or not .
5 Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather .
6 This time Vidor wanted to take up the notion of co-operatives which he had read about in Reader 's Digest .
7 But if the FA decide to take up the matter , I believe Arsenal will not take action , because they do not want to see Wright punished twice .
8 Robert Fraser wanted to take up the invitation to visit my studio .
9 In a normal decay the photon and the nucleus share the energy release Q , so that the photon energy is less than Q. Similarly , when a photon is absorbed in the reverse process the nucleus recoils to take up the photon momentum and so acquires some kinetic energy .
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