Example sentences of "take up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall take up the individual cases that the hon. Gentleman has brought to my attention and give as detailed an answer on them as possible . |
| 2 | My school grades would plummet , I 'd become virtually anorexic and I 'd take up the oddest hobbies to please my loved one . |
| 3 | But the day was saved by Everett , who agreed — after pressurizing his boss , Alastair Morton — that Guinness Mahon would take up the remaining shares . |
| 4 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 5 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 6 | We took up the lost threads of our writing together with even greater dedication . |
| 7 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 8 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 9 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 10 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 11 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 12 | These , with certain trace elements , are taken up the woody fibres and much of the water evaporates at the leaf surfaces , while photosynthesis takes place . |
| 13 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 14 | The defeatists felt that the power of the torturers was too great to try to combat ; the purists were too busy discussing semantics to take up the real problems ; the perfectionists thought that the data on human rights was too imprecise to be used for high quality research ; the paradigm thinkers believed that massive political and social changes would be necessary before torture could be stopped ; many other concerned persons were involved in other cases , such as environment , ecology , animal rights , etc . |
| 15 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 16 | The theological colleges were eager to take up the new opportunities and transfer the teaching of arts subjects to the new colleges and universities . |
| 17 | Some health boards have experienced trouble finding suitable numbers of business people to take up the available seats , even after reducing the size of boards from 18 to 12 . |
| 18 | It concluded ‘ that there would be little trouble in finding someone to take up the unassigned bonds when it is known that bonds in Sunningdale and other golf links have increased nearly 50% since their issue ’ . |
| 19 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |
| 20 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 21 | The young mothers take up the local authorities ' slack stock . |