Example sentences of "take up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some take up a static life — the barnacles ; others swim in vast shoals — the krill which forms the food of whales . |
| 2 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 3 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 4 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 5 | Sometimes , however , less experienced investigators take up a defensive stance , while others may find themselves under pressure from their political masters to adopt a particular approach . |
| 6 | In your free time , you might go to the hairdresser or beautician regularly , work out in a gymnasium , do a sport , go swimming , go out to films , concerts , shows or restaurants , visit friends , take up a new hobby , take evening classes , or join a social club . |
| 7 | Never take up a new sport when you are pregnant , and be careful not to overdo it , especially around the dates then your first few periods would have been due . |
| 8 | You take up a new career in advertising … |
| 9 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 10 | If you find you have too much time on your hands , take up a new interest — or even more than one . |
| 11 | Take up a new interest or hobby . |
| 12 | Molecules thus take up a specific shape , and this shape is particularly important in the complex organic molecules formed by living systems . |
| 13 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 14 | The fanfare of catwalk shows , exhibitions , and the production of designs that may never be worn , take up a great deal of most designers ' time and money . |
| 15 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 16 | You take up a left stance and line yourself up so that your left foot is in front of the opponent 's right , and your right is in front of his left . |
| 17 | Students should stand ready to explain and to defend their views ; and to listen to counter views and take up a further position if the balance of the contending positions points that way . |
| 18 | By filopodial extension and contraction the cells migrate , and take up a ring-like pattern of the wall of the embryo . |
| 19 | Now that really does put you directly in the front-line when you 're answering the phone , so that call could be for anybody , when you take up a night-line call . |
| 20 | Social services take up a large part of the council budget . |
| 21 | But the capacitors on DRAM chips take up a large amount of space ; the ceramic of an FRAM chip is capable of storing data in a much smaller space . |
| 22 | Old people take up a disproportionate share of health and social-security resources and they are also a non-earning sector of the population , thus dependent on those at work . |
| 23 | Things that take up no more space than a cigarette packet can now have vast amounts of data in them . |
| 24 | Doctors encounter people who take up an undue amount of their time with trivial matters . |
| 25 | They also take up an extraordinary amount of memory , the four together gobble up 91K which is more than double that required by SideKick and a quarter as much again as Spotlight . |
| 26 | Individuals with more complicated problems , that do not easily fit into the overall structure of the programme , may either be neglected or take up an inappropriate amount of group time . |
| 27 | Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office . |
| 28 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 29 | And she said take up the that A B C one . |
| 30 | Take up the White Man 's burden |