Example sentences of "[verb] take [art] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The painstaking steps towards releasing a captive barn owl into the wild involve taking the chick from the parent at the age of four to five weeks . |
| 2 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
| 3 | NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability . |
| 4 | Ingres in Eastern Europe , Russia Hewlett-Packard Co has taken a licence from Ask Computer Systems Inc to distribute the Ingres relational database and application development tools throughout Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States . |
| 5 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
| 6 | THE ECHO 'S champion chippy has taken a battering from a fire . |
| 7 | This reads as follows : If a settlor who has taken a loan from his settlement and has been charged to tax under the legislation repays the loan the tax previously charged is not of course repaid . |
| 8 | The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate . |
| 9 | A long time live favourite , it boasts everything that has taken the band from the obscurity of earning five quid a day selling sandwiches to their current position . |
| 10 | A long time live favourite , it boasts everything that has taken the band from the obscurity of earning five quid a day selling sandwiches to their current position . |
| 11 | The more the hybridizing and crossing back and forth has concentrated on the spectacular , the further it has taken the plants from the vigour of their natural origins , and the less resistant many have become to pest and disease . |
| 12 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 13 | Rosie tried to take the hen from Artemis , but Artemis held on to her firmly . |
| 14 | ‘ If you want to take a detour from polite conversation then let me ask you this : despite all that money and all those fancy clothes and wild parties , you 're not very happy , are you ? ’ |
| 15 | I do n't think I 'd taken a breath from when he took his stance until the ball finished up on the green . |
| 16 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 17 | Before she realised what he was intending he 'd taken the crutch from her and propped it out of reach . |
| 18 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 19 | I had n't needed to serve her : I 'd taken the tray from Cathy . |
| 20 | And one of the people I 'd taken an order from , they started pushing . |
| 21 | Aitken tried to flout the referee 's authority by refusing to take a throw-in from the right position and paid the price for his misdemeanour as the tie continued on its unpredictable way . |
| 22 | He was asked to wait and then shown into a room where a detective sergeant prepared to take a statement from him . |
| 23 | Belinda waited quietly , sensing her patient 's need for distraction , but wanting to take a cue from Faye herself before launching into shallow chat . |
| 24 | Passionately anxious to serve Carlotta , he undertakes to take a message from her to Don Manuel , at a time when he and his followers are seriously threatened by the dictator . |
| 25 | A suggestive picture of how it works can be pieced together , as long as you do not mind taking the pieces from different studies of different drugs : work on cocaine by Nora Volcow at Brookhaven National Laboratory , among others ; on cocaine and amphetamines by Bruce Cohen of McLean Hospital in Boston ; on heroin by Zvi Vogel at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot in Israel and Anton Shofelmeer at the Free University in Amsterdam ; and on benzodiazepines ( such as Valium ) by Erick Sigel at the University of Berne . |
| 26 | To shed light on these questions , I 'd like to take an example from the fairly recent past , considering the factors which one ( unnamed ) Education Committee took into account in discussing the closure of a one-teacher school which I |
| 27 | Would you like to take the trug from the kitchen cupboard and go and collect them for me ? ’ |
| 28 | His grandfather shook a fist at him and turned to take a chest from a Campbell sailor . |
| 29 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |
| 30 | They seem to take the level from the amps without breaking up or sounding too middley . |