Example sentences of "took up this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Paleontologists such as William Buckland took up this interpretation with enthusiasm , thus combining a continued belief in the argument from design with opposition to transmutation via the concept of successive creations .
2 Friends of the Earth have calculated that if China , India , Indonesia and Brazil took up this concession fully until 1995 , global production would have doubled from the 1986 level .
3 SAVE took up this issue with the case of St Francis Xavier in Liverpool .
4 But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves .
5 Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures .
6 The Nigerian Standard , owned by the plateau State Government , took up this theme in an editorial which described the reports as the ‘ handwork of some adventurers ’ and claimed that certain western nations were envious of the stability of African states and the cordial relations they enjoyed with one another .
7 The three popular dailies took up this theme in their inside-page stories with almost identical headlines : Woman juror hits out at child killer , HOW CAN THEY LET THIS ANIMAL LIVE ?
8 The US State Department , in its advice to a new president ( Harry S. Truman ) from April 1945 , took up this theme in some detail in its preparations for the Potsdam Conference ( July–August ) .
9 George Herbert took up this image by saying that God 's ‘ silk twist ’ links earth to heaven .
10 Mr. Browne took up this point : ‘ Where one huge bogeyman has gone , a lot of little bogeymen lurk , ’ he said .
11 Steers ( 1964 ) took up this point and argued that the structure and history , as far as it is known , of Blakeney Point pointed to a westwards movement of material in the long term view .
12 The BDDA took up this matter on their behalf and succeeded in getting deaf motorists insured at normal rates with the Ocean Accident and Guaranteed Corporation .
13 Texts in English such as George Day 's Practical Treatise on the Domestic Management and Most Important Diseases of Advanced Life ( 1549 ) soon took up this thinking .
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