Example sentences of "take up [art] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes up a job as a pilot shuttling planes between a Greek island and the mainland , but is eventually able to vindicate himself when his old ship reaches the Aegean . |
| 2 | A qualified accountant may take up a position as : |
| 3 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 4 | But in this case , Everett argued , Guinness Mahon could take up the slack as the company fully expected other investors who had been too slow to meet the deadline to come in . |
| 5 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 6 | He emigrated to Washington D.C. with his wife and two young sons , John and Philip , and took up a job as cornet player with the Barnum & Bailey Circus band . |
| 7 | He and took up a career as a TV commentator with Murray Walker and was recently reported to have cash problems . |
| 8 | Avowing his apostasy , he left Dunsden in February 1913 , and , after a short stay with his family , he took up a post as a teacher of English at the Berlitz school in Bordeaux . |
| 9 | Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London . |
| 10 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
| 11 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |
| 12 | When , in the Republican Party 's presidential primaries , Patrick Buchanan took up the endowment as a weapon to wield against George Bush , Mr Frohnmayer 's stay was over . |
| 13 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 14 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 15 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 16 | ‘ But in all seriousness , we understand from the clerks that Quatt is dissatisfied with his reception here — as well he might be ! — and has the intention of taking up a post as archdeacon somewhere in Worcestershire , where he was living before . |
| 17 | Nigel Sears will be taking up the role as permanent coach to the Cellnet Challenger Squad , whilst John Paish will be working with the Achiever Squad . |
| 18 | Belgian-born Dr Michel Pacque , who first carried out tests of ivermectin with workers in a rubber plantation in Liberia over several years , is now taking up an appointment as consultant for Sight Savers ( Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind ) in West Africa with the task of organizing regular supplies . |
| 19 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 20 | After years of study he had qualified in Mining Engineering and had taken up a post as a college lecturer on mining . |
| 21 | The affair , he believes , is evidence of a deep-seated political campaign against the police , of which the most recent evidence is the fact that Balwinder Gill , late of the SMG , has now taken up an appointment as a race officer with Hounslow council . |
| 22 | Christine Hoogenkamp has taken up an appointment as Editor with the press office of the Netherlands Reformed Church in Leidschendam . |
| 23 | Rice , a controversial omission from South Africa 's World Cup team , has stepped down after 10 years as Transvaal 's captain to take up a position as a TV commentator during the competition . |
| 24 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 26 | David came back to Scotland in 1968 to take up a post as an assistant to the director of education with the City of Edinburgh Corporation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | John Lowe 's mental attainments at the age of 18 were so great that his father saw nothing incongruous in advising him to take up the law as a profession . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1925 he took part in his last athletics meeting in Scotland , winning the Scottish Amateur Athletics Association titles in the 100 , 220 , and 440 yards , before leaving to take up an appointment as a missionary teacher at the Anglo-Chinese College in Tientsin . |