Example sentences of "[be] take on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 2 | David Wheatley , 28 , lived in a fantasy after failing to be taken on by the Force . |
| 3 | Furthermore , they were less likely to have applied to be taken on by the firm 's main competitor , which took over its order book , or to look for another job before leaving the firm . |
| 4 | Presented to the Society by Mr J E Cadwallader from Capetown , South Africa - the last employee to be taken on by the Bishop 's Castle Railway . ) |
| 5 | A small firm may feel vulnerable and unable to compete effectively and look to be taken over , though with an agreement that those of its partners who do not retire should be taken on by the new firm . |
| 6 | All this sort of responsibility will be taken on by the reception centre . |
| 7 | Haram , 23 , was one of just two artists from across the country to be taken on by the charity which promotes ‘ young musicians of exceptional quality ’ . |
| 8 | The firm 's number of assignments has doubled since 1979 — from about 70 carried out by five consultants to around 150 handled by nine — and its annual fee income in London now exceeds £3m. profits are shared equally by the partners worldwide , and all new consultants are taken on with the view that they will ultimately become partners . |
| 9 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 10 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 11 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 12 | Children have been taken on by the Institute and given trial periods . |
| 13 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 14 | Aware that he had been taken on by the college as part of a programme of reform , Minton told Edie Lamont : ‘ They have inaugurated a drive to bring it in line with what they call Contemporary Trends . |
| 15 | The mail-order scheme for cycle helmets run by the Scottish Road Safety Campaign has now been taken on by the ‘ Hard Helmet Scheme ’ . |
| 16 | She was a squat , dusty-looking woman on the threshold of sixty , who had been taken on in the library during the war and whom Mervyn had tried unsuccessfully to dislodge ever since he had become librarian . |
| 17 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 18 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 19 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 20 | In order to cope with the enormous workload while he was away , extra staff were taken on into the Firm as the newcomers christened it . |
| 21 | Designed as a ‘ fun ’ aeroplane it first flew in 1934 or 1935 , subsequently being taken on by the Soviet Air Force as the standard advanced trainer for fighter pilots with production totalling 1,241 by early 1940 . |
| 22 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |
| 23 | He 's studying for a PHD in Biophysics aOOxford university and next year he 's being taken on by the American space agency NASA . |
| 24 | The work will not mean any new workers being taken on by the developer of the Tees Offshore Base , housed in the former Smiths Dock . |
| 25 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 26 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 27 | Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera . |
| 28 | Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites . |
| 29 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 30 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |