Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 2 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 3 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 4 | I wished ICAO to take up the matter with a view to ensuring that the State of registry should have the primary right to salvage the aircraft . |
| 5 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |