Example sentences of "have taken up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Some former students have taken up administrative posts in various public and private enterprises and in the civil service and local government . |
2 | ‘ That is all I am fit for , and you have taken up that option . |
3 | You have taken up American citizenship . |
4 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
5 | But frogs can and several species in South America have taken up permanent residence . |
6 | The younger age group have taken up conspicuous consumption , presumably as a means of recouping some esteem in terms of the apparently dominant and universalistic class criteria . |
7 | The children of some middle-class parents have taken up working-class occupations . |
8 | SASPAC91 for PC 's is being made available under the CHEST deal to academic sites who want to hold it ; the cost of a site licence is just under 3,000 for five years , and about 15 sites have taken up this offer . |