Example sentences of "[was/were] take [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | After a seven day washout period , the same measurements were taken under the same conditions after intake of the other treatment being studied . |
| 4 | The photographs were taken at a high water level . |
| 5 | By 1926 eleven British and four continental centres had opened ; in 1938 , with assets totalling £100,000 , 45,169 guest weeks were taken at the thirty British and twenty-two overseas centres which spread from Brittany to Poland and Czechoslovakia . |
| 6 | In order to compare the two modes of measurement two sets of readings were taken at the shortest possible interval , 15 seconds , the first set without the filter , the second set with it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus the NEB 's reassurances were taken with a strong dose of salt . |
| 9 | Influenced by developments such as these , substantial public support began to develop for measures which would protect the position of the indigenous nationalities and which would ensure that economic decisions were taken with a greater degree of consideration for local circumstances . |
| 10 | General photographs ( ‘ body maps ’ ) were taken with a 35 mm camera and Kodachrome colour slide film . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The soldiers , carrying pistols and M-16 rifles , got into a pickup truck outside the hotel and were taken to a Salvadorean military installation . |
| 13 | Next morning we were taken to a small village nearby , on a patch of dry ground in the middle of a bog , and on this uninviting spot the chief , an aged , autocratic savage called Afleodham , instructed us to camp . |
| 14 | Once at the Prince Albert Street police station , Amaranth and her escort were taken to a small , comfortably furnished room where they were interviewed by a woman detective . |
| 15 | The remains of a few victims were taken to a makeshift mortuary in a hangar at Schiphol . |
| 16 | KIRSTY HAY and her Scottish junior champions were taken to an extra end by Manuella Kormann 's Swiss quartet at the world junior championships in Grindelwald yesterday . |
| 17 | The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . ) |
| 18 | In the 1930s the royal mummies were taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo . |
| 19 | A 26-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl were taken to the Western Infirmary , Glasgow . |
| 20 | The parents and another three-year-old child were taken to the Western Isles Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation . |
| 21 | After preparing for our morning 's activities we got on the coach and were taken to the suitable sites arranged for rock climbing and cycling . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the girls were taken to the same nursery while their mothers rested . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yesterday Essex were taken to the last over by first-class newcomers Durham before securing a four-wicket win in a 50-over friendly at Chelmsford . |
| 27 | No one was hurt in the rush hour blast but a few people were taken to the Royal Free Hospital , Hampstead , suffering from shock . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mattocks were taken to the ice-bound troughs . |
| 30 | 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 . |