Example sentences of "[prep] taking up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 2 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 3 | In the first situation , the ideal , as suggested at the end of the previous section , is to produce a valuation of the chance of taking up a strategic option . |
| 4 | In the third year of the History of Art honours course students have the option of taking up a short work placement in a museum , art gallery or auction house . |
| 5 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 6 | The Grand Prix title could bring her earnings in just one week to an unprecedented £120,000 nice work for a girl who last year was considering taking up a full-time job because she was struggling to make a living on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 7 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 8 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 9 | The man turned and gave me a friendly nod , before taking up a small piece of wood with pencil markings on it . |
| 10 | They remained there for thirteen years before taking up a similar position in Liverpool . |
| 11 | They then move a little further down before taking up the major part of their trip , largely unbroken to the Gulf of Mexico except for stopovers to explore the towns and recover from incidents , including loss of their canoe on one occasion . |
| 12 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 13 | But they do not believe the solution lies in taking up the 15,000 tonne haddock quota available off the west of Scotland . |
| 14 | Today I would like you to think about taking up a new interest or hobby . |
| 15 | He was formerly the general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union , though ( like Citrine ) he had had to resign his union post on taking up the new managerial appointment . |
| 16 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 17 | Some employees believe that the trauma of uprooting their families and homes outweighs any benefits that may be gained by taking up a new position ( possibly a promotion ) somewhere else in the country . |
| 18 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |