Example sentences of "taken [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 5 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 's studying for a PHD in Biophysics aOOxford university and next year he 's being taken on by the American space agency NASA . |
| 12 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 13 | The programme cementing this unity was taken piecemeal from the Labour manifesto . |
| 14 | The sections , which were taken randomly from the gastric corpus and included areas of haemorrhagical damage , were evaluated by an observer unaware of the treatment . |
| 15 | This , taken together with the western blot analysis ( Fig 2 ) , shows that antibodies against human milk lactoferrin recognise human leukocyte lactoferrin and vice versa . |
| 16 | Taken together with the interim payment of 2.55 pence , this makes a total of 7.2 pence for the year — a rise of 16% . |
| 17 | Taken together with the other forces already mentioned in this chapter , increased levels of inspection become a potentially counter-productive measure . |
| 18 | Taken together with the present results , platelet activating factor is likely to modulate regional fibrinolytic activity during gastric mucosal injury induced by endothelin-1 . |
| 19 | The close temporal relation of initial resolution of her watery diarrhoea on stopping her gold treatment and subsequent development of severe enterocolitis on recommencement taken together with the renal ( proteinurial ) , and skin ( maculopapular rash ) involvement as well as transient hypo-γ-globulinaemia suggested gold as the primary cause of her colitis . |
| 20 | Taken together with the previous study on the IL2 induced ADCC in the murine system , the increase in Fc receptor positive cell populations by treatment with IL2 may have enhanced the anticolon ADCC activity in our study . |
| 21 | The reforms , taken together with the earlier tighter financial controls , mean that Bristol enters the '90s with its management and other structures in a new and improved state . |
| 22 | Taken together with the British Museum General Catalogue , a very significant proportion of all the books ever published is listed . |
| 23 | The party view , express d well by the Conservative Agents " journal , was that the Unionists in the Speaker 's Conference had been taken in by the Liberal members , that they had not sought or received any professional advice , and that they had blundered accordingly . |
| 24 | Taken in by the slow-breathing soil creatures , the toxin accumulates in their bodies until it reaches lethal proportions . |
| 25 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 26 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |
| 27 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 28 | There were very old dogs , taken gently to the nearest suitable spot then straight home ; dogs who bounded ahead , to wait for a moment , look round , eyes shining , mouth dripping , before dashing off once more ; dogs on the lead , who would drag their owner slowly from one thoughtfully sniffed-over site to the next ; and there were some , like Wilson , who trotted to heel — alert , brisk , responsible — although Wilson was not a dog , only so much like an Aberdeen terrier in bearing and gait that his picture sometimes became confused in my mind . |
| 29 | This exercise , too , should be taken only to the comfortable stage . |
| 30 | The inter company match was played with ten players from Douglas Reyburn , ten from Stoddards and eight from Lyles , with the scoring being taken only from the best eight in each team . |