Example sentences of "them to take up [noun] " 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 | It is the legacy of the genocidal Ustashe state , the minority insists , that has driven them to take up arms against an independent Croatia . |
| 3 | The HNC in CAE is designed to provide potential Technicians/Technician Engineers with the skills necessary to enable them to take up employment in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment . |
| 4 | On the other hand , women are the targets of a mammoth campaign to persuade them to take up family planning on the grounds that large families are anti-social . |
| 5 | 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 . |