Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 2 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 3 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 4 | Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done , but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack . |
| 5 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 6 | This is also the best advertisement for encouraging kids to take up the game . |
| 7 | The money will pay for promotion material and prizes , as well as encouraging women to take up the sport . |
| 8 | The abilities not just to comprehend , to take things into one 's own understanding , and to make something of them , but also to be able to evaluate critically the available theories and traditions , and to be willing and have the mental toughness to take up a stance of one 's own : all these abilities point to an intellectual independence , requiring real academic freedom for their realization . |
| 9 | They 've just produced a luxury version of the aircraft , which they hope will encourage more people to take up the sport . |
| 10 | They offered me considerable incentives to take up the role of figurehead in the new Whaddon regime ; unlimited and free use of Tilley 's taxis between 2.30 and 4.15 on Tuesday afternoons and generous discounts should I ever need the cat coiffured . |
| 11 | As farmers are forced to look for ways to diversify , ostrich farming is tipped as being one of the growth areas , and Vince Tyack was one of the first farmers to take up the initiative . |
| 12 | Disability Working Allowance will make it easier for disabled people to take up a job . |
| 13 | Commentators have seen this as an acknowledgement of the slowness of the French-speaking nations to take up the challenge of an international role . |
| 14 | The ex-world champion moaned : ‘ I would n't advise any boys to take up the game . |
| 15 | Depressed by what he perceived as a work-shy post-war Britain , Braham in May 1952 sailed with his wife and his three young sons to take up a commission in the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 16 | The two boats to take up the lead were Barthelsson and Strandman who sailed right away from the fleet , opening up an enormous lead . |
| 17 | I think I must have realized that Jean-Claude had neither the nerve nor the genuine confidence to take up an appointment in a language he did not speak . |
| 18 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |