Example sentences of "taken on [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 . |