Example sentences of "were take off [art] " in BNC.

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1 Even popular television war comedies were taken off the air , for fear of jarring too awkwardly with endless hours of Gulf coverage .
2 Trams , however , were taken off the streets of London , in 1935 , and were replaced by trolley-buses — vehicles able to run on electric power by having two arms stretching above their roof to make contact with a pair of overhead cables , instead of the single arm of the tram and the metal rails set in the carriageway of the road along which their route was arranged .
3 The ten K type buses were taken off the road one by one from 1 January 1928 .
4 There was no doubt that maintaining several hundred Australians on Timor was now counter-productive ; and in December the 2/2 Independent Company were taken off the island , after nearly 11 months of constant movement , if not always in action .
5 There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then .
6 Analysts also worry that only 4,000 people were taken off the payroll in the quarter , bringing the total at the company down to 98,100 — they had been expecting that more would leave the company .
7 For instance , we warned about the measles , mumps , and rubella vaccine three years before two of the three versions of the drug were taken off the market .
8 The effect of these two prescriptions was that the principal repayments of loans raised were taken off the balance sheet and put through the revenue account .
9 They were taken off the mountain by rescue teams from Oban and Dumbarton .
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