Example sentences of "[verb] to take up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 2 | Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ? |
| 3 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know : |
| 6 | It has often been asked why Britain , whose reputation stood high in Europe after 1940 and which was the Continent 's wealthiest state in 1945 , failed to take up the leadership of European unity . |
| 7 | Some alterations to the school premises took place in 1883 , when the yard was extended to take up the site of an old lodging house . |
| 8 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |
| 9 | This time Vidor wanted to take up the notion of co-operatives which he had read about in Reader 's Digest . |