Example sentences of "taken on [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | That was we were main one of the , my father seen er possibilities er when he attended the London show , he went er he , he was very much taken on with the Morris Cowley first of all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Spending on current health needs is often constrained by the serving of financial commitments taken on in the past to secure basic health resources . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Children have been taken on by the Institute and given trial periods . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | At Ciba-Geigy the figures are much the same — in 1990 13 out of 34 graduates taken on by the company were women . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The degree of sharing of domestic work depends on the amount of paid work taken on by the wife and the stage reached in the family life cycle . |
| 18 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 19 | This responsibility is often taken on by the detergent suppliers who takes care of the chemicals , dosing equipment and the minor repairs and adjustments on the machine . |
| 20 | 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 . ) |
| 21 | About a dozen mental patients going through rehabilitation in Aylesbury have been working on the boat which was taken on by the Dandelion Trust . |
| 22 | The range of values taken on by the variable is divided into a number of classes before the map is drawn . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Erm the remaining seventy two percent are entirely separate from this and obviously that 's a a very important point to bear in mind when you consider the level of allocation that 's been made first of all , and secondly the likelihood that if that is successful , first of all if it 's approved , if it 's recommended by the panel and eventually taken on by the county , and secondly if happens , then it is likely that it will result in skewing of the workforce even more towards the manufacturing sector of the economy and would in our view be contrary to the aim of diversification of the economic base . |
| 25 | All this sort of responsibility will be taken on by the reception centre . |
| 26 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 27 | In a recent case taken on by the Pension Income Maximiser Service , the best quote was nearly a third more than the worst , and was 10 per cent better than most of the others . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | David Wheatley , 28 , lived in a fantasy after failing to be taken on by the Force . |