Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] to take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | WHEN LASMO Pakistan 's Mujadid Ali arrived in London in September 1991 to take up a place at London University , his first priority was concerned with degrees Fahrenheit rather than degrees academic . |
| 3 | number one to take up the work of the . |
| 4 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |
| 5 | On resigning in June 1991 to take up the post of union Defence Minister [ see p. 38288 ] he was replaced by Sudhakarrai Naik . |
| 6 | In the UK , Oracle Corp 's , UK marketing director , John Spiers , has defected to rival Sybase Inc to take up the position of Northern European marketing director : he will report to Vincent de Gennaro , international marketing director . |