Example sentences of "take up [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Will you take up residence in France ? ’ |
| 3 | We shall take up residence in autumn , not later , for I am to have another child close to Christmas , I believe . |
| 4 | Gill took up volleyball at school and returned to the sport three years ago . |
| 5 | And one of the main reasons why Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke chose Milton Keynes as the first police station to visit since he took up post in April . |
| 6 | The Unit is sponsored by the Scottish Home and Health Department , the Scottish Health Education Group and the Economic and Social Research Council and commenced operation when the Director took up post in September 1983 . |
| 7 | took up gadgetry with naie enthusiasm |
| 8 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 9 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 10 | Stukeley first took up residence in St. Peter 's Rectory and later in a large house at the top of Barn Hill . |
| 11 | Flush with corvine visiting cards , Rolfe took up residence in Christchurch , before the fraudulent offer he made for his hosts ' house marked the end of his credit and credibility in Hampshire . |
| 12 | In June 1937 Reagan took up residence in Hollywood and quickly established himself as a promising film actor , performing in eight films in his first eleven months and going on to make more than fifty films altogether . |
| 13 | In Europe , it used to be believed that devils took up residence inside pigs by entering through a tiny hole in the forefoot . |
| 14 | David took up rowing at Portora and has won the Irish novice sculling and intermediate fours championships with BRC . |
| 15 | The next sister , Elizabeth Marian Edith ( ‘ Bessie ’ ) married Alf Davidge , a silk-buyer trained at the ‘ Cavendish House ’ department store in Cheltenham , who then took up employment at Debenham 's in London , near St Paul 's . |
| 16 | The plaintiff , B , entered into an agreement with Mirror Group Newspapers on 3 June 1988 that if he took up employment with Pergamon Media Trust , he would receive from MGN a sum of money in certain circumstances . |
| 17 | Taking up evidence from Greenpeace which simply drew figures from the national forest surveys coordinated by the UN ECE and EC , Sir Hugh wanted to know if the Forestry Commission accepted that ‘ the beech forests of Britain are among the worst affected in Europe ’ . |
| 18 | We are also establishing a regional presence in the Middle East and Graham Hillier is soon to be taking up residence in Dubai to promote our activities in this region . |
| 19 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |
| 20 | The northern mountains were cool , and the King protracted his stay , taking up residence in St Hilarion , the summer palace of the Lusignans , in the airy apartments of the absent Carlotta and Luis her consort . |
| 21 | The first Advisory Service employees moved in to Westwood in April with the last few taking up residence in June . |
| 22 | She also suggests that this mechanism was reversed in the 1970s , by which time more mothers were taking up employment between births , which would be likely to encourage longer gaps between babies . |
| 23 | Employers can receive assistance with work permits for non EC Citizens taking up employment in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 25 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the Elector Carl Theodor had taken up residence in Munich , and had invited the members of his court to join him there ( though they could stay on at Mannheim and retain their salaries if they wished ) . |
| 27 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |
| 28 | ‘ I have taken up office in Rex House in London , but will be a frequent visitor to the sites , ’ he pledged . |
| 29 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 30 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |