Example sentences of "[is] taken from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second example is taken from the early years of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | This part is taken from the first 4 bars of the Pride And Joy solo and illustrates a great device for filling out the sound of your lines . |
| 3 | The next example , gross household income , is taken from the 1989 family expenditure survey . |
| 4 | One of the longest pieces is taken from The Thirties , Malcolm Muggeridge 's over-rated chronicle , short on detail , long on a relentlessly ironical sense of superiority . |
| 5 | Erm the the erm figure for the whole of the district which is taken from the nineteen eighty one census is fifteen percent of the workforce working outside Richmondshire . |
| 6 | Gas is taken from the Regional Transmission System at times of low demand , usually overnight , and put into storage to be used at times of higher demand such as the breakfast and tea-time periods . |
| 7 | This phrase is taken from the European Council 's own ‘ Declaration on the Environment ’ signed in Dublin in 1990 . |
| 8 | If a piece of tissue is taken from the posterior margin of a mouse limb bud and grafted into the anterior region of a chick limb bud , it too can specify additional digits , but the digits are , of course , chick digits . |
| 9 | The term structure is taken from the physical world where objects relate to each other differently . |
| 10 | Some water boards insist that all cold water taps in the house are taken from the rising main ; others insist that only the kitchen tap is taken from the main and that all others are fed from the roof tank . |
| 11 | In the first example below , 743 for Drawing is taken from the main schedules , and 03 for Dictionaries is added from Table 1 to make the notation 743.03 for a dictionary of drawing . |
| 12 | The name is taken from the Greek reuo , to set free , because it was thought to be effective in so many ailments . |
| 13 | In most houses , with what is called an indirect cold water supply , the rising main goes directly to a cold water cistern , typically situated in the loft ; in others , with a direct cold water supply , the supply for taps and fittings within the house is taken from the rising main itself . |
| 14 | The Woodward list is taken from the published account of the research . |
| 15 | The version given here is taken from the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads . |
| 16 | In time these may dramatically change the view : Figure 6.36 is taken from the same point as Figure 6.34 , but in summer rather than winter and also one year later , some five years after the reconstruction of the road . |
| 17 | THIS TALE is taken from the twelfth-century De Gestis Herwardi Saxonis , which tells the story of Hereward , an eleventh-century rebel who opposed the Norman invaders in the Fenlands . |
| 18 | This curious species is preserved in a fine-grained sandstone as an external mould — that is , all the original shell material has been dissolved away , but this still allows an accurate view of the original organism , especially if an artificial cast is taken from the natural mould . |