Example sentences of "to take up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rice , a controversial omission from South Africa 's World Cup team , has stepped down after 10 years as Transvaal 's captain to take up a position as a TV commentator during the competition . |
| 5 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Together they barely had time to take up a position at the far door , seize a loaded gun , drop to one knee , and aim as , with a final heave , the bulging mass of bodies exploded into the room , followed by the living . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 10 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 11 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 12 | David came back to Scotland in 1968 to take up a post as an assistant to the director of education with the City of Edinburgh Corporation . |
| 13 | Helena Hamerow , the Mary Somerville Research Fellow , resigned in the summer to take up a post as lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Durham . |
| 14 | The beaten favourite in Braiswick 's race was Mamaluna , whose jockey , Greville Starkey , later announced he would be retiring at the end of the season to take up a post with the Newmarket trainer Michael Stoute . |
| 15 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 16 | Rosie Ilett , until recently Password Book 's northern representative , has left the company to take up a post in local government in Glasgow . |
| 17 | He stated that he had informed President César Gaviria Trujillo " a long time ago " of his intention to take up a post in the Higher Council for the Administration of Justice . |
| 18 | Q I wish to take up a career in outdoor activities and am looking for information on the qualifications and training needed for this kind of work . |
| 19 | There is no obligation to take up a career in these Services . |
| 20 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 21 | How could she tell him that Peter 's ‘ intervention ’ had only been supposed to take up a week of her time ? |
| 22 | He held rival services until his return to Britain in 1852 to take up a stipend at Lee in Lincoln , when he was succeeded at the Beco Chapel by a Mr Hossmer . |
| 23 | This flexibility includes job mobility , which may require you to do different jobs in the office , or being asked to take up a job at another office within a reasonable travelling distance . |
| 24 | The election was precipitated by the resignation of William H. Gray in order to take up a job with the United Negro College Fund . |
| 25 | for example , an older sister found a sponsor for Gerta Jassem just two months after arriving in London to take up a job as a chambermaid . |
| 26 | Depressed by what he perceived as a work-shy post-war Britain , Braham in May 1952 sailed with his wife and his three young sons to take up a commission in the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 27 | PETER Stefanini , managing director of Anglo United subsidiary Coalite Chemicals , is leaving to take up a directorship at Croda International . |
| 28 | WHEN LASMO Pakistan 's Mujadid Ali arrived in London in September 1991 to take up a place at London University , his first priority was concerned with degrees Fahrenheit rather than degrees academic . |
| 29 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 30 | Craddock left to take up an appointment at the Wellcome Research Laboratories , and Ridley went to join the staff at Moorfields Eye Hospital . |