Example sentences of "to take up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a polyester line without sleeving allows easy adjustment by re-tying the knot after shortening a line or , in the case of minor differences , adding an overhand knot or two to take up a couple of centimetres . |
| 2 | I 'd like to take up a couple of points if I may about getting some erm we were talking before mentioned children coming in on a regular basis er it 's called living . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 4 | The abilities not just to comprehend , to take things into one 's own understanding , and to make something of them , but also to be able to evaluate critically the available theories and traditions , and to be willing and have the mental toughness to take up a stance of one 's own : all these abilities point to an intellectual independence , requiring real academic freedom for their realization . |
| 5 | How could she tell him that Peter 's ‘ intervention ’ had only been supposed to take up a week of her time ? |
| 6 | It has often been asked why Britain , whose reputation stood high in Europe after 1940 and which was the Continent 's wealthiest state in 1945 , failed to take up the leadership of European unity . |
| 7 | In the UK , Oracle Corp 's , UK marketing director , John Spiers , has defected to rival Sybase Inc to take up the position of Northern European marketing director : he will report to Vincent de Gennaro , international marketing director . |
| 8 | Gunnleik Seierstad of Norway has moved to Crawley , UK , to take up the position of Regional Secretary for Europe and the Middle East with the United Bible Societies ( UBS ) . |
| 9 | He succeeds Seru Verebalavu who resigned in order to take up the position of the region 's Coordinator as part of WACC 's Animation Programme ( see Action number 160 ) . |
| 10 | In particular , as the discount houses were obliged to take up the whole of the weekly offering of Treasury bills by the Bank , the Bank could , by deliberately overissuing Treasury bills , leave the discount houses short of cash balances and force them to borrow from the Bank . |
| 11 | This time Vidor wanted to take up the notion of co-operatives which he had read about in Reader 's Digest . |
| 12 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 13 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |
| 14 | number one to take up the work of the . |
| 15 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |
| 16 | Despite his postscript , in which he condemned free enterprise systems and declared himself an apologist for socialism in Europe , I am pleased to be able to take up the remarks of the hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) . |
| 17 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake in Wirral to take up the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 18 | At this point the Headmaster resigned , to take up the Headmastership of Gresham 's School at Holt in Norfolk . |
| 19 | Esmé Collins , I read , was a well-known Brighton portrait photographer , one of the very first to take up the production of cinema films in eighteen ninety-six . |
| 20 | With the withering of their grasslands , the nomads of the Sahara were forced to descend into the narrow jungle of the Nile valley , there to take up the toil of agriculture . |
| 21 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 22 | Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ? |
| 23 | Commentators have seen this as an acknowledgement of the slowness of the French-speaking nations to take up the challenge of an international role . |
| 24 | He persuaded Brannen , a natural middle distance runner and high jumper , to take up the challenge of the ten events ( 100 metres , long jump , shot , high jump and 400 metres on day one of a competition , followed by the 110 metres hurdles , discus , pole vault , javelin and 1500 metres on day two ) . |
| 25 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 26 | Some alterations to the school premises took place in 1883 , when the yard was extended to take up the site of an old lodging house . |
| 27 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 28 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 29 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 30 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |