Example sentences of "[verb] to take up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When a floorboard is difficult to lift or when you only want to take up a short piece , a floorboard saw is helpful .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 When the chief executive wants to take up a new product , he selects one of them as ‘ project engineer ’ .
5 This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class …
6 I 've got to take up a new attitude with him .
7 Anderson studied at George Watson 's Hospital , Edinburgh , from 1841 to 1848 , leaving to take up a legal apprenticeship for four years .
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