Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 2 | These costs are relevant because they are directly attributable to the decision to take up an opportunity . |
| 3 | Some of the workers in Glasgow , he said , had already decided to relocate to the Midlands to take up the offer of employment there . |
| 4 | University — and particularly institute of education — suspicion of the entry of the CNAA into the field also spurred the universities to take up the challenge to validate the BEd that Robbins had thrown down . |
| 5 | Note that the net 's top line runs across the back of the head to take up the slack . |
| 6 | Romanians would be given the chance to take up an ownership stake in a POF — a kind of embryonic mutual fund — by registering the privatization vouchers which were to be issued to all eligible citizens . |
| 7 | The beaten favourite in Braiswick 's race was Mamaluna , whose jockey , Greville Starkey , later announced he would be retiring at the end of the season to take up a post with the Newmarket trainer Michael Stoute . |
| 8 | I 've asked the union to take up the case for me . ’ |
| 9 | Helena Hamerow , the Mary Somerville Research Fellow , resigned in the summer to take up a post as lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Durham . |
| 10 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 11 | Rosie Ilett , until recently Password Book 's northern representative , has left the company to take up a post in local government in Glasgow . |
| 12 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |
| 13 | In addition , where the landlord pays an inducement to the tenant in order to persuade the tenant to take up the lease , that is a payment on which the tenant must account for VAT ( Nevile Russell v Commissioners of Customs & Excise [ 1987 ] VATTR 194 ) . |
| 14 | On 23 February 1972 , the DUP took a major step towards establishing its own political identity when the four MPs crossed the floor of the house to take up the position left vacant by the withdrawal of the Catholic SDLP as Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition at Stormont . |
| 15 | There is no obligation to take up a career in these Services . |
| 16 | ‘ Very well ! ’ sighed Isambard , and reached a hand to take up the candle in its iron holder from the rocky ledge of the wall . |
| 17 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |