Example sentences of "take from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rufous humming-bird , like the golden-winged sunbird , feeds on nectar , which it takes from a territory of about 60–4000 flowers . |
| 2 | She takes from the bottom of her wardrobe a pair of calf-length fashion boots in dark brown leather and sits on the edge of the bed to pull them on . ) |
| 3 | The cost of recruitment should not be underestimated nor the time it takes from the decision to recruit to the new staff member joining . |
| 4 | He has now fitted three rainwater barrels to use in the garden to reduce the amount of water he takes from the main . |
| 5 | Surely one simply takes from the set of all positive common divisors d of a and b the largest ? |
| 6 | There are poems to Rosa which he takes from the trash . |
| 7 | If you break down in the tunnel and you require assistance , the fireman takes from the driver a Wrong Line Order , colour green , and walks to the signal box , putting down three detonators as a guide when he pilots the Break Down on the wrong line to the train . |
| 8 | He had caught loads of carp but missed five takes from the cats . |
| 9 | The results can take from a few hours to over a week , depending on where you go to be tested . |
| 10 | A seamen 's canteen licence only permits the sale of alcoholic liquor for consumption in the canteen , and it is an offence to supply in or take from a seamen 's canteen liquor for consumption off the premises ( see s.96 ) . |
| 11 | We must take from the earth … |
| 12 | What one can take from the 1993 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is a sense of what certain critics consider important and a sense of the direction in which the Whitney is headed . |
| 13 | Tuan Ti Fo made to correct him — to make him take from the bowl of black stones — but the boy was insistent . |
| 14 | They could also take from the forest all they needed for fuel , building , hedging , and so on . |
| 15 | But it does n't it does n't take from the point that I made that it is i i the allocation they 're seeking is aimed at a very specific sector of the employment base . |
| 16 | How long did it take from the time you started what was going to be the quick , silent operation until you finished and got in ? |
| 17 | Greed and envy took from a man 's heart everything but — well , greed and envy . |
| 18 | ‘ Friends close to me probably saw what was written about me and the criticism I took from every angle . |
| 19 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 20 | But the books which he took from the shelves in those stolen hours in the school library were history and biography and political science . |
| 21 | After the tea he suggested that they play cards , already shuffling the cards he took from the sill . |
| 22 | In the past that gap was bridged by the commercial banks who , in effect , took from the strong ( which included themselves ) to give to the weak . |
| 23 | But the resistance people , allowed to keep the arms they took from the Iraqis , have their own network in the police and the army . |
| 24 | The carton I took from the supermarket said ‘ POISON ’ in big letters , and ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ , so she will be dead by now . |
| 25 | In the reign of Henry III Hugh of Stratford , forester of fee of Wakefield in Northamptonshire , took from the forest townships in his bailiwick : |
| 26 | But less discreetly , when haggling over prices in the house he could lose his temper and shout ‘ Do n't think I am hard up ’ , as he took from the cupboard a quarter pewter pot full of sovereigns ’ to flash at his antagonist . |
| 27 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
| 28 | Basic to it is a distinction , which he took from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) , between ‘ natural science ’ and ‘ moral science ’ , which he rendered in German as Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft respectively . |
| 29 | Marx also took from the classical economists the idea that rates of profit are bound to fall in the long term . |
| 30 | The center of gravity in employment is moving fast from manual and clerical workers to knowledge workers who resist the command-and-control model that business took from the military 100 years ago . |