Example sentences of "take up [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clairol 's Silver Shot ( £19.95 ) is a small , compact hairdryer that wo n't take up loads of room and it has all the advantages of its bigger , professional-style counterparts . |
| 2 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , responding to increasing domestic and international pressure , was reportedly instrumental in compelling Ramon Aguirre Velázquez , a PRI hardliner who had officially won 55 per cent of the vote in Guanajuato , to make the unprecedented announcement on Aug. 29 that he would not take up office as state governor . |
| 3 | We shall take up residence in autumn , not later , for I am to have another child close to Christmas , I believe . |
| 4 | By donating this vehicle to the WISE campaign , British Rail Signal and Telecommunications Engineering hope that the thousands of girls who will have lessons on it , will at least keep their options open and that many will take up careers in Science and Technology later on . |
| 5 | Gill took up volleyball at school and returned to the sport three years ago . |
| 6 | When economists took up positions in government during the war , the theory goes , they acted as missionaries , converting politicians and civil servants alike to Keynesianism . |
| 7 | took up gadgetry with naie enthusiasm |
| 8 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 9 | Taking up positions on Point 265 and the northerly slopes of the Mort Homme on April 6th , Campana was agreeably surprised by the relative calm . |
| 10 | And taking up points about town cramming . |
| 11 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 12 | THE INFLUX of Australians into the English domestic cricket scene continues unabated , the difference between today and yesteryear being that in the late 1940s and early 1950s players made the 12,000 mile northern journey to take up contracts with league and county sides after falling out of favour with State and national selectors . |
| 13 | During the 1860s a few isolated attempts to form close-knit organizations overlapped with more widespread efforts to develop educational circles for workers and to take up posts as village teachers or medical assistants in order to establish links with the peasants . |
| 14 | I just , it 's just a sort of an idea at this stage , I 'm not wanting to take up ogres of time on this , but |
| 15 | We hope that by including a variety of cases we can inspire individuals and groups all over the country to take up arms on behalf of a threatened building in their neighbourhood . |
| 16 | 71000 will be returning to Didcot Railway centre shortly after , for winter maintenance , and to take up duties as part of the Southern pool of locomotives for the SLOA Winter programme , details will be announced shortly , although a number of trips using 71000 have been pencilled in . |
| 17 | Such questions are designed : ( a ) to obtain factual information ; ( b ) to take up matters on behalf of constituents . |
| 18 | I understand I 'm to take up residence at Number One , The Lime tree . ’ |
| 19 | The numbers of science graduates leaving universities can be estimated , but this may not reflect the number of people going on to take up careers in science . |
| 20 | Having won the vote , women were able to make good their claims to the right to sit on juries and to take up seats in Parliament and local government . |
| 21 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 22 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 23 | This is the position taken by Acker ( 1984b ) and by Rich ( 1979a ) who argues that the university is ‘ a system that prepares men to take up roles of power in a man-centred society ’ . |
| 24 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 25 | They may not have information about users ' success ( or lack of it ) in searching for particular books , or for books on particular subjects , or the extent to which users locate substitutes for their original choices , or the extent to which users browse or take up materials on impulse , or the manner in which impulse choices are taken up . |
| 26 | As well as entering professional art practice , students from the course take up work in education , publishing , arts administration , community arts , entertainment , the media , and business , and placements can be arranged in these areas . |
| 27 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |