Example sentences of "[was/were] take [adv] of the " in BNC.

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1 A minority were more fortunate , if one can take as reasonably accurate the report by the Commissariat of Agriculture that 109,705 peasants were taken out of the famine zone and settled on farming land in Siberia , the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and elsewhere .
2 But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment .
3 Fifty-three were taken out of the reckoning , including 10 trained by Henry Cecil .
4 Though the party 's election manifesto is a model of federalist Euro-fervour , the party 's leader caused a storm earlier this year when he said his ‘ his pulse would not waver ’ if the peseta were taken out of the ERM .
5 The centre-piece of the medieval festivals was always the great religious procession when the images of the saints were taken out of the churches and cathedrals and paraded round the town , as still happens in Catholic Europe .
6 Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology .
7 Conference decisions were taken out of the hands of the National Executive on several major issues , indicating a spirit of defiant independence which was rare in the Party as a whole .
8 Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans .
9 But when she saw what he was taking out of the inside pocket of the overcoat , she felt faint with fright .
10 Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial .
11 A total of £3,500 million was taken out of the public-sector borrowing requirement .
12 Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents .
13 Each infantry battalion and armoured regiment had to have an operational ‘ peg ’ , but much of the sting was taken out of the Sandys Reformation , as far as the Army was concerned , by many of its regiments having 2nd and 3rd battalions , which could be amalgamated with 1st battalions as National Servicemen ran out , thus preserving regimental traditions .
14 And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system .
15 At some time prior to 1810–1811 , the mill was taken out of the cloth trade and converted to a corn mill , run by William Clissold .
16 It was taken out of the context of the early punks and placed alongside the hammer and sickle , the IRA and PLO slogans and any other symbols which could be guaranteed to raise the hackles and the eyebrows of the BOF 's ( remember them ? ) .
17 When so-called ‘ marginal land ’ around the periphery of the LFA was surveyed between 1980 and 1982 , none of the existing LFA land was taken out of the LFA in spite of the arbitrary nature of the boundary .
18 When we arrived at the station an enormous suitcase was taken out of the car .
19 When the school evacuated to Minehead , Alice was taken out of the classroom to become a full-time household help :
20 When I turned on the dishwasher or washing machine , the power required was taken out of the underfloor heat and returned to it immediately the machines were switched off .
21 SUAVE Dancer was taken out of the betting for the Arc de Triomphe yesterday .
22 And it was supposed to scream if it was taken out of the house ’ .
23 Terry was taken out of the basement and , when he returned , said that he could n't tell us what he was doing .
24 It was really no surprise that Brian was taken out of the room that afternoon .
25 The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section .
26 The hen was taken out of the cage , held up and its throat cut .
27 With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit .
28 He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this .
29 Workers at a department store have had their pensions frozen because money was taken out of the fund before the shop was sold to new owners .
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