Example sentences of "take up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is critical at this stage , though , that the head conveys positive messages and takes up the opportunities on offer . |
| 2 | Mr Foster , who took up the issue on behalf of farmers and operators , said : ‘ I am deeply disappointed that the Intervention Board has not accepted the strong arguments put forward in favour of the facility . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 4 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 5 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 6 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 7 | From 1927 onwards , as the consequences of Eliot 's baptism into the Anglican church showed up in the imagery of ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , ‘ A Song for Simeon ’ , ‘ Animula ’ , and most conspicuously ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ( 1930 ) , Tate , open to the solicitations of Christian belief , took up the running on Eliot 's behalf from the non-believer Wilson . |
| 8 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 9 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 10 | Meetings between the military commanders of all three factions in Bosnia at Sarajevo airport on Oct. 23 and Oct. 26 , chaired by the new UNPROFOR commander Philippe Morillon ( who took up the post on Sept. 30 ) , failed to halt the fighting . |
| 11 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 12 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 13 | Taking up the wager on behalf of ADT Healthquest , Coe 's idea to encourage people to develop more active and healthy lifestyles seemed , he said , an obvious extension . |
| 14 | East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns . |
| 15 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 16 | Customers may not want to take up the credit on offer . |
| 17 | Sir Michael Angus made it a double whammy for Unilever as the outgoing plc chairman , soon to take up the cudgels on behalf of the CBI , entered the International Marketing Hall of Fame . |
| 18 | The Cheltenham MP was trying to take up the cudgels on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council , who face being charge capped for wanting to spend ten million pounds above the Government 's limit . |
| 19 | In October 1966 , however , one year after the decision not to take up the option on the book , David V. Picker at UA bought the movie rights . |
| 20 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |
| 21 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |