Example sentences of "to take up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 2 | The foot placement is very important as it encourages the rest of the body to take up a good position . |
| 3 | I 'm tired and depressed and afraid to take up a good job offer . |
| 4 | I 've got to take up a new attitude with him . |
| 5 | Several standard-bearing veterans of the uprising were forced hastily to switch positions — and the soldier carrying the wreath sprinted 50 yards to take up a new position in front of the prince . |
| 6 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 7 | McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade . |
| 8 | PA ( a management consultancy ) asked 145 companies taking part in its 1985 ‘ Annual Fringe Benefits Report ’ to say whether or not they provided assistance when senior executives had to move house to take up a new post . |
| 9 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 10 | When the chief executive wants to take up a new product , he selects one of them as ‘ project engineer ’ . |
| 11 | In June , Sacheverell started a lengthy progress through the midlands , on his way to take up a new living in Shropshire , and virtually everywhere he went he received a rapturous reception from the local inhabitants shouting " God Bless Doctor Sacheverell " . |
| 12 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |
| 13 | Sr Janice McLaughlin has returned to her native USA to take up a new appointment as head of the Communications Office of the Maryknoll Sisters in New York . |
| 14 | To take up a vacant living in Mountsorrel . ’ |
| 15 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 16 | The best he could do was to take up a central position in the ward , using a chair for a hassock , and to make a general supplication for all the patients collectively . |
| 17 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 18 | They are also due to take up a similar request by Macedonia and discuss whether Serbia and Montenegro alone can inherit Yugoslavia 's international status . |
| 19 | He returned to the Tyne in 1853 to manage a shipyard , leaving the following year to take up a similar post at Robert Hickson 's shipyard in Belfast . |
| 20 | This did , not prevent her from becoming engaged , in 1956 , to Edgar Lintot , who was about to leave Cambridge to take up a pre-registration post at St Michael 's Hospital in Lewisham . |
| 21 | He gestured to Van Gelder to take up a listening phone . |
| 22 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 23 | It was of course pure selfishness , as having persuaded the Girls to take up a short-lived career which he dominated in a exceedingly paternalistic manner , he did not remain a father figure when that career was about to finish . |
| 24 | Con Tours ( the big London-based travel agents ) have an arrangement with the hotel by which they receive preference bookings during June/July/August in exchange for an undertaking to take up a minimum number of bookings for the ‘ 'shoulder ’ months of May and September . |
| 25 | Anderson studied at George Watson 's Hospital , Edinburgh , from 1841 to 1848 , leaving to take up a legal apprenticeship for four years . |
| 26 | The Presidium of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 10 appointed Pyotr Paskar as Chairman of the Moldavian Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) in place of Ivan Kalin , who was to take up a diplomatic post . |
| 27 | Our other research has shown that some adults would prefer not to take up a full-time course and so lose the income from a full-time job . |
| 28 | Insurance firm Minet stepped in yesterday to take up a last-minute offer to sponsor the event , while BSkyB will provide satellite coverage . |
| 29 | The early running was made by the 100–1 outsider City Scandal , who after two furlongs conceded the lead to Shikampur , with Pinza in about sixth place and Aureole unable to take up a handy position . |
| 30 | When a floorboard is difficult to lift or when you only want to take up a short piece , a floorboard saw is helpful . |