Example sentences of "to take up [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officers joined their men , directing them to take up positions in the main access tunnels , while the main group was despatched to keep an eye on the dock area . |
| 2 | A few people remained to take up lives in the new Wadi Halfa , a bleak tenuous place which sprang up where the railway line from Khartoum comes to an apparently arbitrary end against a low wall of sleepers . |
| 3 | Many officers resigned their commissions to take up jobs with the new company . |
| 4 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 5 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |