Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 2 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake in Wirral to take up the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 3 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 4 | for example , an older sister found a sponsor for Gerta Jassem just two months after arriving in London to take up a job as a chambermaid . |
| 5 | The election was precipitated by the resignation of William H. Gray in order to take up a job with the United Negro College Fund . |
| 6 | He succeeds Seru Verebalavu who resigned in order to take up the position of the region 's Coordinator as part of WACC 's Animation Programme ( see Action number 160 ) . |
| 7 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 8 | Duncan , at six feet eight inches , has a devastating service , and is now off to Texas to take up a tennis scholarship . |
| 9 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 11 | In a similar vein one may recall the refusal of Taskopruzade 's grandfather to return to Istanbul to take up an appointment at the newly built Sahn for fear of becoming involved in distracting ambitions for personal glory . |
| 12 | But if the U's beat Cardiff City on Friday , March 12 — their next league game — then there is a possibility that another new senior face will be arriving on loan to take up the goalkeeping duties . |
| 13 | In 1985 Jones moved back to Provo to take up an appointment in the physics department at his Alma Mater , BYU . |