Example sentences of "taken [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 2 | You are also far less likely to be taken on for training . |
| 3 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 4 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 5 | However , she was taken on for six months by the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the children 's ward . |
| 6 | Indeed , apart from workers in holiday camps who , because they are taken on for periods expected to be in excess of 13 weeks , qualify for statutory sickness pay , most seasonal workers are not entitled to any income replacement in case of absence . |
| 7 | He 'd known perfectly well how she 'd react when he 'd arranged for her to be taken on for this play . |
| 8 | These trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year . |
| 9 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 10 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 11 | For instance , some drugs can not be taken together for this reason . |
| 12 | You 'd have to take them all in to be examined , then see if there was any fraying around the trousers and you had n't reported it , for ordinary wear and tear had to be reported and then taken in for repair — you could n't repair it yourself . |
| 13 | The parents of one family were n't taken in for questioning at all that day , but Mrs W was . |
| 14 | You hurry slowly in the Atlas : at the highest village we were taken in for tea again , by a sister of Ali 's . |
| 15 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 16 | The narrowing down of this primitive trade-route took place , perhaps in stages , in Saxon and early medieval times as more and more land was taken in for arable cultivation . |
| 17 | Within a further twenty-four hours , his sister , Mrs Roxie Farmer , divorcee , was taken in for questioning at Royal Hill police station , but claimed she knew nothing . |
| 18 | The light mornings are coming along and the cows can be taken in for milking earlier . |
| 19 | As many as 18 executives from the two British companies implicated in the supergun affair ( Sheffield Engineering and Walter Summers ) were taken in for questioning by UK customs officials . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure she was n't taken in for a moment about — about me . ’ |
| 21 | All five teenagers were arrested and taken in for questioning . |
| 22 | More than 50 adults arrested and 140 children taken in for questioning after raids across France on outlawed Children of God sect which preaches free love for all ages . |
| 23 | Most work situations provide people with a social network that is often taken entirely for granted , and which is missed only after retirement . |
| 24 | Failure to meet these expectations would have been dangerous , especially as his army consisted partly of the forces of independent warlords like Thorkell the Tall and the Norwegian Earl Eric of Lade , whose loyalty could not be taken entirely for granted . |
| 25 | These have been taken down for conservation and it is hoped to replace them with copies . |
| 26 | The name of each roundabout will be placed above advance direction signs only when these have to be taken down for maintenance work , so cutting down on costs . |
| 27 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 28 | In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan . |
| 29 | Would he care to address the fact that because these orders are being taken separately for Wales and England it is not possible to make the quota applicable in the same way in the same parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | They were taken away for questioning . |