Example sentences of "[verb] up a [adj] position [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presidents of six Amazon Basin states — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana and Surinam — together with representatives of Peru and Venezuela , held a two-day summit meeting in Manaus , Brazil , on Feb. 10-12 to draw up a joint position in advance of the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) in June . |
| 2 | Instead of fleeing to a safe place and hiding away there with complete body concealment , the animal takes up a semi-hidden position from which it can remain watchful . |
| 3 | He therefore took up a defensive position behind a series of hedges , but it was 5 pm and almost dark by the time the two sides came into contact . |
| 4 | His marines , suddenly faced with the British paras , took up a defensive position in some abandoned trenches and under Gómez 's leadership fought very last ditch , full of courage . |
| 5 | Bernard Guidon , Hewlett-Packard Co 's commercial general manager for Unix in the US is taking up a new position within HP Europe — a promotion , according to the company — though his role has yet to be finalised . |
| 6 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 7 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 8 | Hearts ' Robertson could play beside McCoist with the young Pittodrie forward , Jess , taking up a wider position in his first full international appearance from the start . |
| 9 | They remained there for thirteen years before taking up a similar position in Liverpool . |
| 10 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 11 | Several standard-bearing veterans of the uprising were forced hastily to switch positions — and the soldier carrying the wreath sprinted 50 yards to take up a new position in front of the prince . |
| 12 | The best he could do was to take up a central position in the ward , using a chair for a hassock , and to make a general supplication for all the patients collectively . |
| 13 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 14 | As in most dances there is advance and apparent retreat , only to take up a fresh position for the next advance . |
| 15 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 16 | GRAHAM Gooch 's record-breaking feat was not enough to prevent England messing up a match-winning position in the sixth Cornhill Test yesterday . |
| 17 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |