Example sentences of "take from [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like Malham because , in spite of the hammering it takes from visitors , it has still managed to keep its character . |
| 2 | The track has been immaculately maintained considering the pounding it takes from trainers , brogues and sling-back stilettos , but being Britain 's highest peak has elevated Ben Nevis above mere Munro status to tourist attraction . |
| 3 | other , other property shall not be confiscated so you 're gon na take all the land , animals , implements from the landlords , you 're gon na take their surplus grain , their surplus houses into the countryside but , but nothing else you , you 're gon na take from landlords . |
| 4 | The Minister is saying that the Government will take from pensioners what is currently theirs by right . |
| 5 | Tests in other transgenic plant species show that protein coats taken from viruses appear to confer protection against them . |
| 6 | By writing down their key words , taken from headings within the chapter , you can have in front of you parallel but different patterns of the same subject . |
| 7 | Francois Morellet is showing ‘ Relache ’ , a series of recent works whose title pays homage to Picabia , at Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert ( 16 January to 20 February ) while Vera Rohm 's ‘ Foto-tele ’ , monumental sculptures , are on at Nikki Diana Marquadt until the middle of January , together with large panels by Horst Haack , taken from pages of one of his albums , covered with sketches , quotations , poems and newspaper cuttings . |
| 8 | Many of the floral designs for this china , whether taken from prints or fresh exotic blooms , were obtained from the nearby Physic Garden and Philip Miller must have been in touch with the factory . |
| 9 | This account is taken from reports in the Stamford Mercury during 1857 . |
| 10 | Report of the Faroe Islands pilot whale kills , taken from minutes of the European Parliament , 1989 |
| 11 | The Ministry of Agriculture said eggs taken from consignments imported last month , showed evidence of salmonella contamination . |
| 12 | When the Jesuit Benedict Göes passed by Khotan in 1603 he reported that the superior kind of jade was taken from rivers ‘ almost in the same way in which divers fish for gems ’ . |
| 13 | Whereas in the examples taken from scenes one and three , Anderson fulfils the Interest Principle by merely 'saying what is unpredictable and hence interesting " ( Leech 1983 : 146 ) , in later scenes he uses irony to implicate propositions which might be too face-threatening to be made directly or ironic understatement to be deliberately impolite . |
| 14 | The foregoing examples are taken from documents written by uneducated men who committed to paper , as best they could , what they thought they had heard , or spellings they believed appropriate . |
| 15 | The pictures of bombing in Iraq which became familiar viewing during the Gulf War were taken from Buccaneers . |
| 16 | The accompanying illustrations , which are fifty in number , were taken from sketches made by Mr. Gould himself , and executed on stone by Mrs. Gould , with that admirable success , which has attended all her works . ’ |
| 17 | Video Plan 6 on page 53 is taken from materials intended to be used as language reinforcement . |
| 18 | This view is supported by postmortem studies of brain tissue which have shown that there are more dopamine sensitive sites on the surfaces of cells taken from schizophrenics than are found in normal brains . |
| 19 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , said Cowper had been caught with £280 worth of goods stolen from the Alpha House Project and £106.50 worth of china and glass taken from Victoriana in Bucktons Yard . |
| 20 | Funds taken from colleges and universities where cutbacks will now be inevitable will go to the schools training teachers . |
| 21 | Most of the information below is taken from surveys conducted for the Rampton/Swann Committee ( see Chapter 3 : 1981 Rampton ; 1985 Swann ) , in 1979 and 1982 , in five LEAs with high proportions of ethnic minority pupils . |
| 22 | We saw several videos that the police had taken from helicopters showing the nature of the driving of some young drivers and the constraints on police in pursuing them , particularly in built-up areas . |
| 23 | The tables were taken from newspapers , holiday brochures and advertisements . |
| 24 | When samples are retrieved they are also zero-crossing tested , the peak value being taken from PEAKS with the second pointer POUT . |
| 25 | Duncan Campbell MacEwan tells of twenty-eight holdings taken from crofters to make the farm at Raineach Mhor . |
| 26 | The data was taken from trials at Silsoe College of tanker and umbilical hose systems between October 1 and March 31 in three years — 1986/7 ( average rainfall ) , 1987/8 ( wet ) and 1988/9 ( dry ) . |
| 27 | The images in Figure 1 were taken from sections of a movie loop with a total of 912 frames , the stills have been selected to illustrate the phases of the migrating motor complex . |
| 28 | It is no accident that two of Jane Austen 's titles — Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice — should express symmetry and invoke proportion ; while two others — Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey — should not only be taken from houses , but can be read , respectively , as an apologia for Palladianism and a satire on the Gothic taste . |
| 29 | The last three were taken from forms on which subjects recorded three consecutive defecations , this being done satisfactorily by 77% of the subjects . |
| 30 | Taken from Principles of Dairy Farming |