Example sentences of "were take [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For BrdUrd analysis 3 µm sections were taken through the vertical crypt axis at intervals of 100 µm and plated onto Poly L-lysine coated slides for subsequent immunostaining . |
| 2 | During the second day the professionals were taken through the same programme . |
| 3 | Some steps against pluralism were taken at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , but an altogether more far-reaching measure was promulgated at the Council of Lyons in 1274 . |
| 4 | Traders like tavern-keepers in the Strand and wine merchants in St James 's Street , learnt to expect and tolerate late payment , and to ensure that any steps to obtain settlement were taken with the greatest diplomacy . |
| 5 | The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . ) |
| 6 | In the 1930s the royal mummies were taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo . |
| 7 | A 26-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl were taken to the Western Infirmary , Glasgow . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , the other avenue available — use of the County Topic Loan Service — does not seem to have been explored in any systematic way , even though parties of children were taken to the divisional library on at least one occasion . |
| 9 | But the girls were taken to the same nursery while their mothers rested . |
| 10 | After lunch , where both of us drank too much red wine , we were taken to the wild boar pens and told to clean them out . |
| 11 | We were taken to the main hall , a long lofty chamber dominated by a hammer-beamed roof with an oriel window at one end depicting the Lamb of God carrying a standard . |
| 12 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 13 | The Bosnians were taken to the old terminal , on a little used part of the airport , and then transferred by coach to centres in Surrey , West London and a new centre in Dewsbury , Yorkshire , which took 60 from the latest flight . |
| 14 | According to a report in NIN ( 9 November 1986 ) , the memorandum claimed that the prewar Comintern was hostile to Serbia , that the Serbian delegates to the second session of the Anti-fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia in 1943 ( at which major decisions were taken about the postwar composition of Yugoslavia ) were elected not by organizations within Serbia but by Serbian personnel who were in the partisan armies in Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time , and that postwar Yugoslavia was largely under the control of Tito , a Croat , and Kardelj , a Slovene . |
| 15 | Further practical steps were taken following the second amendment to make the SDR ‘ the principal reserve asset ’ : |
| 16 | Regulation curves for three typical output voltage levels are shown in Fig. 12 ; these were taken from the final prototype . |
| 17 | After inspection of the upper gastrointestinal tract , two biopsy specimens were taken from the greater curvature of the antrum , 2 cm from the pylorus . |
| 18 | In addition , mucosal biopsy specimens ( mean , 5 ) were taken from the greater curvature on well defined areas in the corpus ( at 50 cm from dental arches ) and antrum ( at 2–3 cm above pylorus ) as described elsewhere . |
| 19 | Definitions were taken from the machine-readable version of Collins English Dictionary . |
| 20 | Denominators for incidence were taken from the 1981 census and used to estimate the ‘ at risk ’ population aged 40 to 64 years . |
| 21 | Two adjacent biopsy specimens were taken from the terminal ileum , the ileocaecal valve , and from eight different sites in the colon . |
| 22 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 23 | Calculations were taken from the original bear to produce drawings , reducing it from three to two dimensions . |
| 24 | The recent spate of such thefts ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.16 ) continued when one marble and sixteen classical terracotta figurines were taken from the Schimatari Museum in Boeotia , central Greece , on the night of 24 December . |
| 25 | Biopsy specimens were taken from the sigmoid colon ( about 20 cm from the anus ) of 28 patients with ulcerative colitis ( mean age , 35 years ; range , 15–59 years ; 10 men and 18 women ) and 23 controls without ulcerative colitis ( mean age , 52 years ; range , 20–73 years ) who underwent sigmoidoscopy because of suspected non-inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 26 | In some cases several samples were taken from the same object , but from different layers or areas . |
| 27 | Competition with the same binding sites in F9 EC cell extracts is shown in tracks 2 and 3 ; tracks 1 to 5 were taken from the same experiment . |
| 28 | Standard duplicate biopsy specimens were taken from the proximal limb , the anterior wall , the posterior wall , and the body of the reservoir . |
| 29 | In some cases the need for knowledge of the businesses meant that a large number of specialist journals were taken by the corporate planning department and circulated within corporate head office . |
| 30 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |