Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to take up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 2 | Back in London , deserting his native Liverpool which he compared unfavourably to Manchester , he was advised by William Leach at the British Museum to take up lithography . |
| 3 | Just three of the qualities I possess that will be invaluable when I get the inevitable call to take up Football League management . |
| 4 | This would reduce the ability of the living world to take up carbon dioxide . |
| 5 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 6 | THE INFLUX of Australians into the English domestic cricket scene continues unabated , the difference between today and yesteryear being that in the late 1940s and early 1950s players made the 12,000 mile northern journey to take up contracts with league and county sides after falling out of favour with State and national selectors . |
| 7 | This leads the non-violent professor to take up arms against the thugs to protect his home . |
| 8 | If you intend to move to a new area to take up employment it is wise to do some homework on local factors affecting recruitment . |