Example sentences of "[noun] to take up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight years after her marriage to Robert Dudley , Amy Robsart , daughter of a Norfolk knighted gentleman , moved from Lincolnshire to Berkshire to take up the vast abode that her charming if rakish husband had provided for her . |
| 2 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |
| 3 | As the age-structure changed older spectators tended to leave the terraces to take up the increasing amount of seated accommodation ; the ‘ ends ’ were left to ‘ the lads ’ . |
| 4 | The idea is the brainchild of CEWTEC , the training and enterprise council for Chester , Ellesmere Port and Wirral which is now seeking 15 local firms to take up the cut-price offer . |
| 5 | Some health boards have experienced trouble finding suitable numbers of business people to take up the available seats , even after reducing the size of boards from 18 to 12 . |
| 6 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 7 | You will need to attach three Daily Mirror tokens to take up the special offer . |
| 8 | You will need three separately numbered tokens to take up the special offer at Butlin 's Holiday Worlds . |
| 9 | After surviving the acquisition by SunSoft Inc of the greater part of his former employer — Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp — where he was European director , before going to become manager of Northern Europe for Sun Microsystems Inc 's software subsidiary , industry veteran Doug Miller last week resigned from the company ‘ to pursue other interests ’ after Peter Watkins was moved from SunSoft 's Mountain View , California headquarters to take up the newly-created position of general manager for SunSoft in Europe ; Watkins is also responsible for Northern Europe ( which includes the UK ) until a replacement for Miller is found . |
| 10 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 11 | The defeatists felt that the power of the torturers was too great to try to combat ; the purists were too busy discussing semantics to take up the real problems ; the perfectionists thought that the data on human rights was too imprecise to be used for high quality research ; the paradigm thinkers believed that massive political and social changes would be necessary before torture could be stopped ; many other concerned persons were involved in other cases , such as environment , ecology , animal rights , etc . |